Modification of section 83 of the Agriculture Act 1970

12.  Section 83 of the Act (exercise of powers by inspectors) shall (as specified in regulation 7) have effect as if—

(a)in subsection (2), after the words “this Part of this Act”, there were added the words “, or fails to comply with any requirement lawfully made by him in the exercise of such powers,”, and

(b)for subsection (5) there were substituted the following subsection:

(5) Subsection (4) of this section shall not prevent an inspector who has taken a sample of any material in the prescribed manner from disclosing, to the manufacturer, or to the last seller or last supplier of the material, information as to the place where, and the person from whom, the sample was taken, or from disclosing to that manufacturer, last seller or last supplier, or to any person who had the material on his premises for the purpose of sale or supply, information as to the results of any analysis of that sample..