# The Legal Services Act 2007 (Warrant) Regulations 2010, Regulation 7: Copying of records


(1) An officer or agent who executes a warrant may take a copy of any written or electronic record for which the warrant authorises a search.
(2) The officer or agent may require any record that is stored in electronic form and is accessible from the premises to be produced in a form—
(a) in which it can be copied; and
(b) in which it is visible and legible or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form,
if he has reasonable grounds for believing that it is a record for which the warrant authorises a search.
(3) Where an officer or agent has taken possession of electronic records, he may produce records from it in a form that —
(a) can be copied; and
(b) is visible and legible,
if he has reasonable grounds for believing that those records are records for which the warrant authorises a search.
(4) Nothing in these regulations authorises an officer or agent to take a copy of any records that the officer or agent has reasonable grounds for believing to be items subject to legal privilege where the approved regulator is the client with the benefit of the legal privilege.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111492451/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-services-act-2007-warrant-regulations-2010/regulation-7
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

