{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-16/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-16/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Applications for warrants",
  "text": "(1) A person applying for a search warrant must—\n(a) state that the application is for a warrant under paragraph 5,\n(b) specify the matters set out in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) (as the case may be),\n(c) state what are the grounds for suspecting that relevant evidence is on the premises, and\n(d) identify, so far as is possible, the offence to which the relevant evidence relates.\n(2) If the person is applying for a specific-premises warrant, the person must specify each set of premises that it is desired to enter and search.\n(3) If the person is applying for an all-premises warrant, the person must specify—\n(a) as many of the sets of premises that it is desired to enter and search as it is reasonably practicable to specify,\n(b) the person who is in occupation or control of those premises and any others that it is desired to enter and search,\n(c) why it is necessary to search more premises than those specified under paragraph (a), and\n(d) why it is not reasonably practicable to specify all the premises that it is desired to enter and search.\n(4) If the person is applying for a search warrant authorising entry and search on more than one occasion, the person must also state—\n(a) the ground on which the person applies for such a warrant, and\n(b) whether the person seeks a warrant authorising an unlimited number of entries, or (if not) the maximum number of entries desired.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 13 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 13 in force at 29.10.2026 by S.I. 2026/960, reg. 5(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/schedule/16/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:35:03.708512+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."
}