Regulation 5 Obtaining information
England and Wales
For the purpose of enabling competent authorities and F1the Welsh Ministers to fulfil the obligations placed on them by F2Regulation 2017/625 and for the purpose of executing and enforcing relevant feed law or relevant food law, a competent authority may require a F3delegated body—
to provide the competent authority with any information which it has reasonable cause to believe the delegated body is able to give; and
to make available to the competent authority for inspection by it any records which it has reasonable cause to believe are held by the delegated body or are otherwise within its control (and, if they are kept in computerised form, to make them available in a legible form).
The competent authority may copy any records made available to it under paragraph (1)(b).
A person who—
fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed under paragraph (1); or
in purported compliance with such a requirement furnishes information which he or she knows to be false or misleading in any material particular or recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in any material particular,
is guilty of an offence.
For the purposes of paragraph (1), the term “F4delegated body” includes any member, officer or employee of a delegated body.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 5(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving Provision) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1581), regs. 1(3), 10(4)
- F2
Words in reg. 5(1) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 12(a)(ii)
- F3
Words in reg. 5(1) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 12(a)(i)
- F4
Words in reg. 5(4) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 12(b)