{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-alcohol-licensing-and-late-hours-catering-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-29",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111167991",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Alcohol Licensing and Late Hours Catering) (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-alcohol-licensing-and-late-hours-catering-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Powers of entry: immigration officers",
  "text": "After section 138 of the 2005 Act, insert—\n“Powers of entry: immigration officers\n138A (1) Where an immigration officer has reason to believe that any premises are being used for the sale of alcohol, the officer may enter the premises with a view to seeing whether an offence under any of the Immigration Acts is being committed in connection with the sale of alcohol.\n(2) An immigration officer exercising a power conferred by this section must, if so requested, produce evidence of that officer’s authority to exercise the power.\n(3) An immigration officer exercising a power conferred by this section may, if necessary, use reasonable force.\n(4) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally obstructs an immigration officer exercising a power conferred by this section.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(6) In this section, “immigration officer” means a person appointed as an immigration officer under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "There have been amendments to paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111167991/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:04:53.504826+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."
}