The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020 No. 44 (W. 5)

PART 3 E+W Assistance and co-operation under Title IV and recovery of expenses

Facilitating assistance and co-operation E+W

9.—(1) For the purposes of assisting a competent authority F1 ... as provided for in Article 104, or enabling the Welsh Ministers or a designated authority to do so, an inspector exercising powers under relevant legislation to enter premises or to inspect records may—

(a) be accompanied by authorised officers of [F2 another competent authority],

(b) show records to such accompanying authorised officers, and

(c) make copies for them, or require copies to be made for them, of the records.

F3 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) Any person may be required to provide an enforcement officer with such assistance, information or facilities as the officer may reasonably require for the purpose of the execution or enforcement of these Regulations or the [F4 Official Controls Regulations].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 9(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)(i)

F2 Words in reg. 9(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)(ii)

F3 Reg. 9(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(b)

F4 Words in reg. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639), regs. 1(2), 3(4)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 9 in force at 31.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)