{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-agriculture-etc-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-agriculture-etc-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2019/412",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-agriculture-etc-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Facilitating assistance and co-operation",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of assisting a competent authority ... as provided for in Article 104, or enabling a competent or designated authority to do so, an inspector may on entering premises or when inspecting records—\n(a) be accompanied by an authorised officer of a competent authority ...;\n(b) show records to such an officer; and\n(c) make, or require the making of, copies of records for such an officer.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) An enforcement officer may require any person to provide them with such assistance, information or facilities as they may reasonably require for the purposes of the execution or enforcement of these Regulations or the Official Controls Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health and Welfare and Official Controls (Agriculture) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/380), regs. 1(3), 4(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 9(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health and Welfare and Official Controls (Agriculture) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/380), regs. 1(3), 4(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health and Welfare and Official Controls (Agriculture) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/380), regs. 1(3), 4(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 14.12.2019, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/412/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:34.137864+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."
}