Power to purchase glue trap
127.Paragraph 4 of the schedule enables Trading Standards officers to carry out test purchases in order to ascertain if offences are being committed. To do so, Trading Standards officers can enter any premises which are generally open to the public, inspect products and make purchases. They may also direct another person to attempt to carry out a purchase in order to see if the seller commits an offence (and paragraph 2 of the schedule provides that a person doing so does not commit an offence).