{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/section-139",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/section-139.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Inspections Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006",
  "path": "section/139",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "Power of entry",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to—\n(a) any inspection conducted by the Chief Inspector under section 136, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The Chief Inspector may, at any reasonable time, enter any premises for the purposes of the inspection ..., other than any premises excluded by subsection (3).\n(3) The premises excluded by this subsection are any domestic premises that are not a school (within the meaning of EA 1996).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 139(1)(b) and word omitted (18.7.2012) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Annual Review of Local Authorities) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1879), arts. 1, 4(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 139(2) omitted (18.7.2012) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Annual Review of Local Authorities) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1879), arts. 1, 4(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 139 applied (9.11.2015) by The Children Act 2004 (Joint Area Reviews) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1792), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 139 in force at 1.4.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(u)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/40/section/139",
    "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."
}