Obtaining information from persons
6.—(1) For any purpose of the enforcement and execution of these Regulations and the Council Regulation, the Scottish Ministers or a local authority may, by notice served on any person who appears to them–
(a)to be involved in the exportation of genetically modified organisms; or
(b)to be about to become, or to have been, involved in that activity,
require that person to furnish such relevant information available to that person as is specified in the notice, in such form and within such period following service of the notice as is so specified.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation “relevant information” means information concerning any aspects of the activity in question.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) authorises the Scottish Ministers or the local authority to require disclosure of anything which a person would be entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of confidentiality in proceedings in the Court of Session.