Duty to give assistance and provide informationE+W
18.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must give any food authority such assistance and information as they may reasonably request for the purpose of helping them perform their duties under these Regulations, and the Welsh Ministers may share any other information obtained by them with any food authority (although not requested by the authority) for the purpose of helping them perform those duties.
(2) In paragraph (1) “information” (“gwybodaeth”) means information obtained by the Welsh Ministers as the competent authority designated by regulation 6(1), as the competent authority designated by regulation 10(1) or as an enforcement authority.
(3) The Welsh Ministers may use information obtained by them as the competent authority designated by regulation 6(1), or as the competent authority designated by regulation 10(1), for the purpose of helping them perform their duties as an enforcement authority under these Regulations.
(4) The Welsh Ministers may use information obtained by them as an enforcement authority under these Regulations for the purpose of helping them perform their duties as the competent authority designated by regulation 6(1) or as the competent authority designated by regulation 10(1).
(5) Each food authority must give any other food authority or the Welsh Ministers such assistance and information as they may reasonably request for the purpose of helping them perform their duties under these Regulations, and each food authority may share any other information obtained by them as an enforcement authority with any other food authority or with the Welsh Ministers (although not requested by the authority or the Welsh Ministers) for the purpose of helping them perform their duties under these Regulations.
(6) In paragraph (5) “information” (“gwybodaeth”) means information obtained by a food authority as an enforcement authority.