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- (a) to require the person, or any person who is or was an officer or employee of that person, to provide an explanation of the document, information or article;
- (b) if the document, information or article is not furnished, to require the person to state, to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, where it is; and
- (c) if the document, information or article is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the document, information or article to be made available to the inspecting officer in legible form.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), if any document or information required by an inspecting officer is kept in electronic form—
- (a) the power of the inspecting officer to inspect the document or to obtain the information includes the power to—
- (i) access any computer or other equipment (including a mobile telephone) in which the document or information is stored; and
- (ii) require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer or equipment to provide assistance in gaining such access; and
- (b) the power of the inspecting officer to seize such document includes the power—
- (i) to make copies of the document in legible or electronic form; and
- (ii) to transfer the information from the document to a disk, tape or other storage device.
(5) If the inspecting officer under subsection (4)(b) is unable to make copies of the document or transfer the information from the document, the Licensing Officer or a police officer (whether or not the same inspecting officer) may—
- (a) subject to section 24(6), seize the computer or other equipment (including a mobile telephone) in which the
