Commentary on Sections National Minimum Wage Section 10: Powers of officers to take copies of records
67.Section 10 provides that officers have the power to remove records required to be kept or preserved under NMWA 1998 in order to take copies of those records.
68.Subsection (2) enables an officer to copy a complete record without having first to determine whether all of the record is material.
69.Subsection (3) provides that, where records are produced, an officer has the power to remove them for the purpose of making copies. Where an officer removes records for this purpose, they must be returned as soon as reasonably practicable.
70.Subsection (4) provides that the amendments in section 10 do not have effect in relation to the AMW in Scotland and Northern Ireland.