Section 124 sets out how and by whom documents seized and detained under Chapter 3 (Investigatory Powers) can be accessed.
	Subsection (2) provides that a person must be granted access to a detained document under the supervision of an officer if that person makes a request for access and had custody or control of it immediately before it was seized.
	Subsections (3) and (4) set out what the local housing authority must do if a request is made for a photograph or copy of a seized document.
	Subsection (5) provides that a local housing authority need not permit access to, or a photograph or copy to be made of, seized documents if it reasonably believes that doing so would prejudice the purpose for which the document had been seized.
	Subsection (7) makes provision so that a person’s representative can also request access to and copies of seized documents.
Part 4: Enforcement Chapter 3 – Investigatory Powers Section 124: Access to seized documents Effect