Summary and Background Part 8: Enforcement Chapter 3: Licensing Enforcement Powers Section 263: Power to require information relating to certain substances and objects
676.This section enables enforcement officers to require a person to give details of any substance or objects on board a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or marine structure. People may also be required to declare information about substances or objects lost or missing from a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or marine structure. This re-enacts a power conferred by the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 and relates to information about substances which might be harmful to human health or the environment. Subsections (2) and (3) prevent this information being used as evidence in a criminal prosecution (save for the offence of making a false statement, if the information given is found to be false).