Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Act 2023

Inspection powers

76. An authorised officer may—

(a) examine a record or any other thing related to an agricultural and food product,

(b) require the name and address of the owner or person in possession or control of a record or any other thing related to an agricultural and food product,

(c) inspect anything used in connection with an agricultural and food product and require the person in charge or control of such thing to refrain from moving it,

(d) require the owner or person in possession or control of anything used in connection with an agricultural and food product to produce to the authorised officer such records (and in the case of a record stored in non-legible form, produce a copy in a legible form), as the officer may reasonably require,

(e) inspect and take copies of any record (including a legible reproduction of one stored in a non-legible form), or extracts from the record, that the officer finds or is produced to the officer during an inspection,

(f) make a record,

(g) require a person to provide information about the ownership and identity of a record related to an agricultural and food product or anything used in connection with a record related to an agricultural and food product, and

(h) require a person to provide information about specified premises (including information about the ownership, occupation and use of the premises).