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Rh :(h) operate any equipment, including electronic equipment, located at the premises if the person exercising the power believes, on reasonable grounds, that the equipment can be operated without damaging it;
 * (i) operate any photographic or video-recording equipment anywhere in or around the premises;
 * (j) do anything that is necessary or expedient for the carrying out of any of the acts referred to in paragraphs (a) to (i), including restricting or prohibiting the access of persons and vehicles to or from the premises.

(4) A power referred to in subsection (3) (a), (b), (c), (d), (h) or (i) may only be exercised in a manner that the person authorised to exercise it believes, on reasonable grounds, to be in accordance with safety procedures applicable at the premises.

National inspection

16.—(1) All authorised officers shall be national inspectors for the purposes of this Act and any regulations made thereunder.

(2) The Director may, from time to time, appoint in writing other persons to be national inspectors.

(3) A national inspector may—
 * (a) with the consent of the person in control of any premises; or
 * (b) under a warrant issued under section 21 in respect of any premises,

enter the premises and exercise, on or in the premises, any inspection power for a compliance purpose.

International inspection

17. An international inspector may, with the consent of the person in control of any premises—
 * (a) in respect of which any provision of Parts VI to IX of the Verification Annex to the Convention applies;
 * (b) that is subject to an on-site challenge inspection referred to in paragraph 8 of Article IX of the Convention; or
 * (c) in respect of which an investigation under paragraph 9 of Article X of the Convention has been initiated,