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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/section-122G",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Inspections Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006",
  "path": "section/122G",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "122G",
  "heading": "Powers of entry etc. for purposes of inspection",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to an inspection conducted by the Chief Inspector under this Chapter.\n(2) The Chief Inspector may, at any reasonable time, enter—\n(a) any premises of the Academy proprietor;\n(b) the premises of any Academy of which the Academy proprietor is the proprietor;\n(c) any other premises on which, by virtue of arrangements made by the Academy proprietor, any pupils or students who are registered at an Academy within paragraph (b) are receiving part of their education from any person (“the provider”);\n(d) any premises of the provider used in connection with the provision by the provider of that education.\n(3) The Chief Inspector may, at any reasonable time, inspect, take copies of, or take away such of the following as the Chief Inspector considers relevant to the discharge of the Chief Inspector’s functions under this Chapter—\n(a) any documents or records kept by the Academy proprietor;\n(b) any documents or records kept by an Academy of which the Academy proprietor is the proprietor;\n(c) any documents or records kept by the provider relating to the provision of education by virtue of arrangements made by the Academy proprietor.\n(4) The power in subsection (3) includes—\n(a) power to require any person holding or accountable for any such documents or records to produce them, and\n(b) in relation to any such documents or records kept by means of a computer, power to require them to be produced in a form in which they are legible and can be taken away.\n(5) In connection with inspecting any such documents or records the Chief Inspector—\n(a) may obtain access to, and inspect and check the operation of, any computer and associated apparatus or material which the Chief Inspector considers is or has been in use in connection with the documents or records, and\n(b) may require a person within subsection (6) to afford the Chief Inspector such reasonable assistance as the Chief Inspector requires for that purpose.\n(6) A person is within this subsection if that person is—\n(a) the person by whom or on whose behalf the computer is or has been used, or\n(b) a person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer, apparatus or material.\n(7) A person is guilty of an offence if that person intentionally obstructs the Chief Inspector in the exercise of any function conferred by this Chapter.\n(8) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 Ch. 2A inserted (29.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), ss. 57(2), 78(1)(a)(5)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/40/section/122G",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:59.347958+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."
}