{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-and-chicks-england-regulations-2009/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-and-chicks-england-regulations-2009/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2163",
  "legislation_title": "The Eggs and Chicks (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-and-chicks-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Duty to give assistance and provide information",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State (“S”) must give any food authority such assistance and information as they may reasonably request for the purpose of helping them perform their duties under these Regulations, and S may share any other information obtained by S with any food authority (although not requested by the authority) for the purpose of helping them perform those duties.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “information” means information obtained by S as the competent authority designated by regulation 6(1), as the competent authority designated by regulation 10(1) or as an enforcement authority.\n(3) S may use information obtained by S as the competent authority designated by regulation 6(1), or as the competent authority designated by regulation 10(1), for the purpose of helping S perform S's duties as an enforcement authority under these Regulations.\n(4) S may use information obtained by S as an enforcement authority under these Regulations for the purpose of helping S perform S's duties as the competent authority designated by regulation 6(1) or as the competent authority designated by regulation 10(1).\n(5) Each food authority must give any other food authority or S such assistance and information as they may reasonably request for the purpose of helping them perform their duties under these Regulations, and each food authority may share any other information obtained by them as an enforcement authority with any other food authority or S (although not requested by the authority or S) for the purpose of helping them perform their duties under these Regulations.\n(6) In paragraph (5) “information” means information obtained by a food authority as an enforcement authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2163/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:07:01.992503+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}