{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/45",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Welfare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) a power of inspection conferred by section 26(1), 27(1), 28(1) or 29(1), and\n(b) a power of search conferred by a warrant under section 23(1).\n(2) A person exercising a power to which this paragraph applies may—\n(a) inspect an animal found on the premises;\n(b) inspect any other thing found on the premises, including a document or record (in whatever form it is held);\n(c) carry out a measurement or test (including a measurement or test of an animal found on the premises);\n(d) take a sample (including a sample from an animal found on the premises or from any substance on the premises which appears to be intended for use as food for such an animal);\n(e) mark an animal found on the premises for identification purposes;\n(f) remove a carcass found on the premises for the purpose of carrying out a post-mortem examination on it;\n(g) take copies of a document or record found on the premises (in whatever form it is held);\n(h) require information stored in an electronic form and accessible from the premises to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form;\n(i) take a photograph of anything on the premises;\n(j) seize and detain or remove anything which the person exercising the power reasonably believes to be evidence of any non-compliance, or of the commission of any offence, relevant to the purpose for which the inspection or search is made.\n(3) A person taken onto premises under paragraph 5 may exercise any power conferred by sub-paragraph (2) if he is in the company, and under the supervision, of a person exercising a power to which this paragraph applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 10 in force at 27.3.2007 for W. by S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 10 in force at 6.4.2007 for E. by S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/45/schedule/2/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:44.862642+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."
}