Chapter 4 of Part 38 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after section 904I:

"904J. Power of inspection: tax deduction from payments in respect of professional services by certain persons.

(1) In this section -

'accountable person' has the same meaning as in section 521;

'authorised officer' means an officer of the Revenue Commissioners authorised by them in writing to exercise the powers conferred by this section;

'books, records or other documents' includes -

(a) any records used in the business of an accountable person whether -

(i) comprised in bound volume, loose-leaf binders or other loose-leaf filing system, loose-leaf ledger sheets, pages, folios or cards, or

(ii) kept on microfilm, magnetic tape or in any non-legible form (by the use of electronics or otherwise) which is capable of being reproduced in a legible form,

and

(b) every electronic or other automatic means, if any, by which any such thing in non-legible form is so capable of being reproduced, and

(c) documents in manuscript, documents which are typed, printed, stencilled or created by any other mechanical or partly mechanical process in use from time to time and documents which are produced by any photographic or photostatic process, and