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(1)Regulations may make provision for requiring the notifier or any other prescribed person—
(a)to provide the Secretary of State with prescribed information about the health or welfare of any animal within subsection (2);
(b)to take prescribed steps, in connection with supplying such an animal to another person, to secure that prescribed information about the subsequent health or welfare of—
(i)that animal, or
(ii)any of its progeny within subsection (2),
is provided by, or can be collected from, that other person.
(2)An animal is within this subsection if it is—
(a)a relevant animal to which a precision bred animal marketing authorisation relates, or
(b)its qualifying progeny.
(3)Regulations under this section may provide for requirements to apply to information about the health or welfare of a relevant animal or its qualifying progeny during periods—
(a)prescribed by the regulations, or
(b)determined by the Secretary of State in particular cases.
(4)Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative procedure.
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