(1) In this section "an authorised person" means any person authorised by the Registrar for the purpose of this section.

(2) An authorised person may, at the request of the Registrar, and on production of his authorisation to any person concerned, at all reasonable times inspect and take copies of or extracts from books, accounts, deeds, records or other documents relating to the business of a society, and for any of those purposes may enter any premises at which any such documents are kept.

(3) An authorised person who is carrying out an inspection under this section in relation to a society may, with the approval of the Registrar, carry out a similar inspection in relation to any other society or body corporate which is or has at any relevant time been associated with the first-mentioned society, and for that purpose may exercise, in relation to the associated society or body corporate, a power conferred by subsection (2).