49Investigations relating to manufacture or sale of electrical articles or gas appliances

#### 49 Investigations relating to manufacture or sale of electrical articles or gas appliances 49 Investigations relating to manufacture or sale of electrical articles or gas appliances > An authorised officer may, at any reasonable time, enter any place that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds to be a place in which the manufacture or sale of electrical articles or gas appliances, is being, or may be, carried on and may do any one or more of the following— > > > (a) inspect and test any electrical article or gas appliance or prototype of an electrical article or a gas appliance, > > > (b) inspect any manufacturing assembly or testing plant or equipment used in respect of any electrical article or gas appliance, > > > (c) open any container or package which the authorised officer has reasonable grounds to believe contains any electrical article or gas appliance or require the person having possession of the container or package to open it, > > > (d) seize, detain or remove, for the purpose of examination or testing, any electrical article or gas appliance or any container or package in which an electrical article or a gas appliance is contained or has been contained, if the authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe that— > > > > > (i) an offence has been committed against this Act or the regulations in respect of the electrical article or gas appliance, or > > > > > (ii) the electrical article or gas appliance is or is likely to become unsafe, > > > (e) require any person in the place to produce any accounts, records, books or other documents in the possession of that person relating to the manufacture or sale of any electrical article or gas appliance in the place, > > > (f) take copies of, or extracts or notes from, any such accounts, records, books or other documents, > > > (g) require any person in the place to answer questions or otherwise provide information relating to the manufacture or sale of electrical articles or gas appliances in the place where the articles or appliances are in the possession of that person, > > > (h) require the owner or occupier of the place to provide the authorised officer with any assistance and facilities that are reasonably necessary to enable the authorised officer to exercise the functions of the authorised officer.