S.L. 117.43 Art. 4Appointment and duties of officers.

(1) The Agency may, in matters dealing with agriculture and from time to time, appoint officers for the purposes of these regulations, or of any orders made thereunder.

(2) In order to ensure compliance with these regulations, officers appointed in terms of sub-regulation (1), shall have the power, at reasonable times, but without giving prior notice and upon production of proof of their identity:

(a) to enter and inspect any stall located at an agricultural marketing centre where trade in local agricultural produce, is carried out;

(b) to inspect and copy any documents, records or any other information to which these regulations may apply, in whatever form they are held, and remove them to enable them to be copied or require computer records to be produced in a form in which they may be easily accessed and taken away by the officer or, and seize any article, commodity connected with or which may be used as evidence that an offence has been committed.