Part 1: Main Provisions Section 25: Power to require information relating to food supply chains
This section provides the appropriate authority with the power to require information from persons within, or closely connected to, a food supply chain in certain specified circumstances. The required information must relate to that person’s activities within that food supply chain.
	The power may not be used to require an individual to provide information. This protects individual farmers and sole traders from being subject to requirements made under the powers.
	This section limits the circumstances in which a requirement may be imposed to ensure that information can only be requested:
if the authority considers the information is needed to establish (either alone or within other information) (i) whether the whole or part of a food supply chain is being disrupted or is at risk of disruption; or (ii) the nature of such a disruption; and
if the authority has previously requested the person to do so and the person has not supplied information willingly or provided information which is misleading or false to a material extent.
	In order to allow for the power to be used at short notice, this section allows for requirements to be made in writing, as opposed to through a Statutory Instrument.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.