Social Welfare And Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009
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Social welfare inspectors — amendment. |
16.— Section 250 (as amended by sections 29 and 37 of the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 ) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting the following subsections for subsection (16): | |
“(16) For the purpose of ensuring compliance with this Act, a social welfare inspector may— | ||
(a) if accompanied by— | ||
(i) a member of the Garda Síochána in uniform, or | ||
(ii) an officer of Customs and Excise in uniform, | ||
and | ||
(b) on production of his or her certificate of appointment, | ||
stop any vehicle and, for such purpose, may— | ||
(i) question and make enquiries of any person in the vehicle or in the vicinity of the vehicle, and | ||
(ii) require such person, where the social welfare inspector reasonably suspects that the vehicle is being used in the course of employment or self-employment, to give to the social welfare inspector any record relating to the employment or self-employment of such person which such person has possession of in the vehicle. | ||
(17) In this section ‘officer of Customs and Excise’ has the meaning assigned to it by the Customs Act 1956 .”. |