The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Information

5.—(1) An operator must, on demand being made by the Agency, supply —

(a) such information as the Agency may reasonably require for the purpose of calculating the official controls charge or notifying an operator of it; and

(b) such evidence as the Agency may reasonably require to enable it to verify information supplied under sub-paragraph (a).

(2) Any demand made by the Agency under paragraph (1) must be in writing and may be served on the operator concerned—

(a) by delivering it to that operator;

(b) in the case of an operator that is a body corporate other than a limited liability partnership—

(i) by delivering it to the operator’s secretary at the operator’s registered or principal office, or

(ii) by sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to the operator’s secretary at that office;

(c) in the case of a limited liability partnership—

(i) by delivering it to a designated member of the partnership, at the operator’s registered or principal office, or

(ii) by sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to a designated member of the partnership at that office;

(d) in the case of an operator that is a partnership other than a limited liability partnership, by delivering it to the partnership’s principal place of business; or

(e) in the case of any other operator, by leaving it or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to the operator at the operator’s usual or last known residence.

(3) Where a demand is to be served on an operator under paragraph (2) but it is not reasonably practicable to ascertain the name and address of the person on whom it should be served, or the premises of the operator are unoccupied, the document may be served by addressing it to the operator in the capacity of occupier of those premises (naming them), and—

(a) by delivering it to some other person at the premises; and

(b) if there is no other person at the premises to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it or a copy of it to some conspicuous part of the premises.

(4) Any person who —

(a) in purported compliance with paragraph (1), knowingly or recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material particular; or

(b) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply within a reasonable time with a demand made under paragraph (1),

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.