{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3255",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exchanging and providing information",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of enabling competent authorities, other OFFC authorities and the Secretary of State to fulfil the obligations placed upon them by Regulation 2017/625 competent authorities may exchange among themselves or provide to other OFFC authorities any information received by them in the execution and enforcement of relevant feed law or relevant food law.\n(2) For the purpose of executing and enforcing relevant feed law or relevant food law, competent authorities may exchange among themselves any information received by them in the execution and enforcement of such law.\n(3) For the purposes of facilitating the execution and enforcement of relevant feed law or relevant food law in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, competent authorities may share information received by them in the execution and enforcement of relevant feed law or relevant food law with the bodies that execute and enforce such law in those countries.\n(4) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) are without prejudice to any other power of competent authorities to disclose information by or under any other applicable legislation.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation, “other OFFC authorities” means authorities designated in the United Kingdom as competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 2017/625 other than the competent authorities designated under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1476), regs. 1, 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(5) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1476), regs. 1, 5(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3255/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:58:56.267706+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."
}