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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-services-act-2007-warrant-licensing-authority-regulations-2015/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111127865",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Warrant) (Licensing Authority) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-services-act-2007-warrant-licensing-authority-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Conditions for issuing a warrant",
  "text": "A judicial officer may issue a warrant only if satisfied that—\n(a) the Board has made reasonable attempts to obtain the written or electronic records sought by other means, or that such attempts would be likely to result in the records being removed, hidden, tampered with or destroyed; and\n(b) no judicial officer has refused to issue a warrant based on another application that is in substance the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127865/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:20.873170+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."
}