Section 9: Monitoring by Government
28.Subsections (1) and (2) enable a Minister of the Crown and, in relation to Scottish Category 1 and 2 responders, the Scottish Ministers, to require a Category 1 or Category 2 responder to provide information which relates to the performance of their functions under Part 1 of the Act. It is likely that this power will be used to support the functions of making secondary legislation under Part 1 and of taking enforcement action under sections10 and 11.