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Social welfare inspectors.
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28.—Section 212 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—
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(a) the substitution for subsection (4) of the following subsection:
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“(4) The occupier of any premises or place liable to inspection under this section, and any other person who—
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(a) is or has been employing—
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(i) any person in insurable employment or insurable (occupational injuries) employment, or
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(ii) any claimant or beneficiary,
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or
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(b) engages or has engaged a person under a contract for service to perform a service,
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and the employees of, or any other person providing bookkeeping, clerical or other administrative services to, any such occupier or other person and any insured person, claimant or beneficiary, or any person in respect of whom such a benefit is claimed, shall furnish to a social welfare inspector all such information and produce for inspection all such registers, cards, wages sheets, records of wages and other documents as the social welfare inspector may reasonably require for the purposes of ascertaining whether contributions are or have been payable, or have been duly paid in respect of any person, or whether any benefit is or was payable to or in respect of any person.”, and
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(b) the insertion after subsection (10) of the following subsection:
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“(10A) A social welfare inspector may exercise any of the powers or duties conferred on him by this section to investigate, at the request of the competent authority of another Member State or any other country with which the Minister has made a reciprocal arrangement under the provisions of section 238, any claim, by a person resident in the State, for or in respect of any social security payment under the legislation of another Member State, or under the legislation of any other country with which the Minister has made a reciprocal arrangement under the said provisions.”.
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