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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Inspection

57: Inspection powers

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“Inspectors can check places and papers connected to immigration advice”

You can be inspected if you are connected to immigration advice. Someone chosen by the Registrar can come to places where immigration advisers work or have worked in the last two years. They can also visit places where people who want to become advisers work, or where anyone gives immigration advice.

The inspector can ask questions to advisers, former advisers, or other people at these places. They can ask to see important papers and make copies of them. If they think the papers show someone broke the law, they can keep them.

If the inspector asks to see papers, you must show them right away.

The rules for these inspections are the same as those in parts of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. These parts talk about how searches should be done, what happens to things that are taken, and how to challenge a search.

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Part 1 Regulation of immigration advisers
Inspection

57Inspection powers

  1. Any person authorised by the Registrar may, for a purpose set out in section 56,—

  2. at any reasonable time, enter any premises where the person has good cause to suspect that—
    1. any licensed immigration adviser or former licensed immigration adviser works or has worked in the past 2 years; or
      1. any person who has applied to be licensed as an immigration adviser works; or
        1. a person provides immigration advice or contracts or employs a person to provide immigration advice:
        2. question any licensed immigration adviser, former licensed immigration adviser, or other person at any premises of a kind described in paragraph (a):
          1. require a person of a kind described in paragraph (a) to produce for inspection relevant documents in that person's possession or under that person's control:
            1. inspect and take copies of documents referred to in paragraph (c):
              1. retain documents referred to in paragraph (c), if there are grounds for believing that they are evidence of the commission of an offence.

                1. If a requirement is made of a person under subsection (1)(c), the person must immediately comply with that requirement.

                2. The provisions of subparts 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 of Part 4 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 apply.

                Notes
                • Section 57: replaced, on , by section 261 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).