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  "legislation_title": "Consumer Rights Act 2015",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/21",
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  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An officer of an enforcer may—\n(a) make a purchase of a product, or\n(b) enter into an agreement to secure the provision of a product.\n(2) For the purposes of exercising the power in sub-paragraph (1), an officer may—\n(a) at any reasonable time, enter premises to which the public has access (whether or not the public has access at that time), and\n(b) inspect any product on the premises which the public may inspect.\n(3) The power of entry in sub-paragraph (2) may be exercised without first giving notice or obtaining a warrant.",
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  "status": null,
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 21 in force at 27.5.2015 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/1333, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 21 in force at 27.5.2015 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2015/965, art. 2(b)"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 21 in force at 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(h) (with art. 8)"
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