Chapter:	562	Title:	Broadcasting Ordinance	Gazette Number:	E.R. 2 of 2012
Section:	25	Heading:	Investigation of licensee's business	Version Date:	02/08/2012

(1) Where the Authority is satisfied that it is necessary for the proper performance of its functions under a prescribed Ordinance in order to ensure a licensee's compliance with a licence condition, a requirement under the Ordinance which is applicable to it, a direction, order, or determination, under the Ordinance which is applicable to it, or a provision in a Code of Practice which is applicable to it, it may authorize in writing any person to do all or any of the following at such times as are specified by it in the authorization- (Amended 17 of 2011 s. 28)

(a) require a licensee or a person whom such authorized person reasonably believes to be employed or engaged in connection with the relevant business of a person to whom this section applies to produce for examination any data, book, document or record which relates to such business and which is in the possession or under the control of the licensee or person, as the case may be;
(b) examine and, if he thinks fit, to take copies of any data, book, document or record produced under paragraph (a) or any entry therein;
(c) remove the data, book, document or record referred to in paragraph (a) or the copies referred to in paragraph (b) for examination by him and the Authority; and (Amended 17 of 2011 s. 28)
(d) require a licensee or a person whom such authorized person reasonably believes to be employed or engaged in connection with the relevant business of a person to which this section applies to give the authorized person and the Authority any explanation or further particulars as specified by the authorized person in respect of any data, book, document or record produced under paragraph (a). (Amended 17 of 2011 s. 28)

(a) that it is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Authority as referred to in subsection (1) that entry be obtained to any premises which the chairperson, vice-chairperson or the Director-General of Communications has reasonable grounds for believing is used or occupied by a person to whom this section applies for the purposes of keeping, storing or using any data, book, document or record which relates to the relevant business of the person to whom this section applies; and (Amended 17 of 2011 s. 28)
(b) that permission to enter such premises has been refused or that entry is likely to be refused,

(i) may exercise therein the powers specified in subsection (1); and
(ii) copy, seize, remove and detain any data, book, document or record therein or any copy thereof which the authorized person has reasonable grounds for believing will afford evidence likely to assist the Authority in the proper performance of its functions under this Ordinance. (Amended 17 of 2011 s. 28)

(a) to require the person mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to extract or retrieve, or cause to be extracted or retrieved, in a visual or printed or other written form or on a computer disc, or in both, any information referred to in subsection (10) and specified by the person exercising the power, and if when extracted or retrieved the information is in a printed or other written form, to require the person so described to deliver it to the person exercising the power;
(b) to extract or retrieve himself, in either of or both such forms, by means of the equipment normally used for that purpose, any information so referred to; and
(c) to examine any information so extracted or retrieved and if thought fit to remove it.

(a) relates to a relevant business; and
(b) is recorded in a form in which it can be extracted or retrieved by equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose.