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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-9/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-9/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/12",
  "legislation_title": "Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A constable may require a person in possession of an unmanned aircraft to allow the constable to inspect it if the constable considers that the inspection would assist the constable in deciding whether a power conferred by any of paragraphs 1 to 7 is exercisable.\n(2) A constable may if necessary use reasonable force for the purpose of exercising the power conferred by this paragraph.\n(3) A person who fails to comply with a requirement imposed under this paragraph is guilty of an offence.\n(4) A person who is guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 in force at 29.4.2021 for specified purposes and 29.6.2021 for all other purposes, see s. 21(1)(a)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/12/schedule/9/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:52.834529+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}