Section 69 — Appointment of additional persons to exercise investigatory powers

Extent: E+W+S

Snapshot: 2026-08-24

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(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations—

(a) requiring or permitting an inspector to appoint a person to conduct or participate in an investigation;

(b) conferring on such a person a power of an inspector for the purposes of an investigation.

(2) A person given functions by regulations under this section is to exercise them on behalf of the Crown (and, in particular, is to be taken in respect of those functions to be an officer of the Crown for the purposes of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947).