{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111064030",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Carcase (Classification and Price Reporting) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Powers of entry",
  "text": "(1) An authorised officer may at any reasonable hour enter a regulated slaughterhouse and any associated premises in which carcases may be handled or records relating to those carcases may be kept, for the purposes of ascertaining whether—\n(a) any breach of these Regulations is being or has been committed, or\n(b) there is on the premises any evidence of any such breach.\n(2) Where an authorised officer enters premises under paragraph (1), the officer must present either—\n(a) if entering under a warrant granted under paragraph (4), the warrant,\n(b) if not entering under a warrant granted under paragraph (4), the authorisation under which the officer is entering.\n(3) The authorised officer may be accompanied by such other persons as the officer considers necessary.\n(4) If a justice of the peace or sheriff, by evidence on oath, is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for entry into premises for any purpose in paragraph (1) and that—\n(a) the premises are a private dwelling,\n(b) admission to the premises has been refused, or a refusal is anticipated, and that notice of the intention to apply for a warrant has been given to the operator,\n(c) asking for admission, or the giving of such notice, would defeat the object of the entry,\n(d) the case is one of urgency,\n(e) the premises are unoccupied, or\n(f) the occupier is temporarily absent,\nthe justice of the peace or sheriff may by signed warrant authorise an authorised officer to enter the premises, if need be by reasonable force.\n(5) A warrant granted under this regulation remains in force for a period of three months beginning on the date on which it is issued.\n(6) An authorised officer who enters any unoccupied premises, or premises from which the occupier is temporarily absent, must leave them as effectively secured against unauthorised entry as they were before entry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111064030/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:19.734928+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."
}