PART 2 MAIN PROVISIONS
Obtaining information5
1
For the purpose of enabling competent authorities and F4the 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 F1delegated body—
a
to provide the competent authority with any information which it has reasonable cause to believe the F1delegated body is able to give; and
b
to make available to the competent authority for inspection by it any records which it has reasonable cause to believe are held by the F1delegated body or are otherwise within its control (and, if they are kept in computerised form, to make them available in a legible form).
2
The competent authority may copy any records made available to it under paragraph (1)(b).
3
A person who—
a
fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed under paragraph (1); or
b
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.