The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Powers of the Agency undertaking audits on behalf of the Welsh Ministers

7.—(1) Where the Welsh Ministers arranges for the Agency to undertake an audit, the audit provisions of the Feed and Food Regulations apply as if—

(a) the undertaking of the audit were a purpose referred to in regulations 8(1) and 9(1) of the Feed and Food Regulations, and

(b) the competent authority concerned were an enforcement authority to which regulations 8 and 9 of the Feed and Food Regulations applied.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the audit provisions of the Feed and Food Regulations are—

(a) regulations 8 and 9(1) to (8) and (10), as read with regulation 10 of those Regulations, and

(b) regulation 11 of those Regulations.

(3) Where the Agency undertakes an audit, regulations 17(2), (4) and (5)(c), 18(2) to (9), 19 to 21, 45 to 47, 49 and 50 of the Feed and Food Regulations apply as if the audit were undertaken under those Regulations and enforced or undertaken thereunder by the Agency.