{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/buildings-restrictions-war-time-contraventions-act-1946/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/buildings-restrictions-war-time-contraventions-act-1946/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/9-10/35",
  "legislation_title": "Buildings Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Act 1946",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/buildings-restrictions-war-time-contraventions-act-1946",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power of entry.",
  "text": "(1) During the period of five years beginning with the end of the war period, any officer of an authority responsible for enforcing a . . . planning control shall, on producing, if so required, some duly authenticated document showing his authority to act for the purposes of this section, have a right, subject to the provisions of this section, to enter any premises at all reasonable hours—\n(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there are on the premises any works carried out during the war period which do not comply . . . with planning control, or whether a use of the premises continues which was begun during that period and does not comply therewith;\n(b) where an application has been made to the authority under section two of this Act, for the purpose of obtaining any information required by the authority for the exercise of their functions under that section in relation to the application:\nProvided that admission to any premises which are occupied shall not be demanded as of right unless twenty-four hours’ notice of the intended entry has been served on the occupier.\n(2) Any person who wilfully obstructs any officer of an authority acting in the exercise of his powers under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale\n(3) If any person who in compliance with the provisions of this section is admitted into a factory, workshop or workplace, discloses to any person any information obtained by him in the factory, workshop or workplace with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret, he shall, unless such disclosure was made in the performance of his duty, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (N.I.) 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6, (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46, (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I.) by 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/9-10/35/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:25:10.931611+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."
}