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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Discipline and offences - Discipline - Investigations

93: Investigator’s powers

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"What powers do investigators have when looking into plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work?"

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When you are being investigated, an investigator can enter your land or premises at a reasonable time. They can inspect and test any plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work to see if it was done correctly and safely. They can also ask you questions and do other things to help with the investigation. You might be asked to show the investigator certain documents or information, and you must do this within a reasonable time. The investigator can also make copies of these documents. If you are asked to give information or documents, you have the same rights as you would if you were in court, as stated in section 96.

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Part 3Discipline and offences
Discipline: Investigations

93Investigator’s powers

  1. An investigator, for the purpose of investigating a complaint,—

  2. may, at any reasonable time, enter and re-enter any land or premises and—
    1. inspect and test any sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work on that land or those premises:
      1. make any inquiries that are reasonably necessary to determine whether or not any sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work on that land or those premises has been carried out in a competent and safe manner and in accordance with enactments relating to sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying that were in force at the time the work was done; and
        1. generally do any other things on that land or those premises that are reasonably necessary to enable the investigation to be carried out; and
        2. may, by written notice served on any person, require that person to—
          1. produce for inspection, within any reasonable period that the investigator may specify, any document or class of document in the possession or under the control of the person:
            1. provide, within any reasonable period that the investigator may specify, any information or class of information that the investigator may require; and
            2. may take copies of, or extracts from, any of the documents referred to in paragraph (b).

              1. Subsection (1)(a) applies in respect of dwellinghouses subject to section 96.

              2. Every person who is required to supply information or documents to an investigator has the same privileges in relation to the supply of the information or documents as witnesses have in any court.