{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-act-1990/section-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-act-1990/section-41.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/16",
  "legislation_title": "Food Safety Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-act-1990",
  "path": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Power to require returns.",
  "text": "(1) Every food authority shall send to the Secretary of Stateor to the Food Standards Agencysuch reports and returns, and give him or it such information, with respect to the exercise of the functions conferred on them by or under this Act as he or it may require.\n(2) In the application of this section to Scotland, the references to the Food Standards Agency are to be read as references to Food Standards Scotland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 41(1): s. 41 renumbered as s. 41(1) (S.) (1.4.2015) by Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 1), s. 63(2), sch. para. 3(9)(a) (with s. 62); S.S.I. 2015/99, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 41 substituted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 40(1), Sch. 5 para. 7, 8 (with ss. 38, 40(2)); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 41 inserted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 40(1), Sch. 5 para. 18 (with ss. 38, 40(2)); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 41 inserted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 40(1), Sch. 5 para. 18 (with ss. 38, 40(2)); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 41(2) inserted (S.) (1.4.2015) by Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 1), s. 63(2), sch. para. 3(9)(b) (with s. 62); S.S.I. 2015/99, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 41 amended (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 18, Sch. 3 Pt. I paras. 1, 5 (with s. 38); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 41 transfer of functions (23.3.2005) by Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/849), art. 1, Sch. (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/16/section/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:14.422556+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."
}