{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-8/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-8/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Applications for warrants",
  "text": "(1) Where an enforcement officer applies for a warrant, the officer must—\n(a) state the ground on which the application is made,\n(b) state the provision of this Act under which the warrant would be issued,\n(c) specify the premises which it is desired to enter, and\n(d) identify, so far as is practicable, the purpose for which entry is desired.\n(2) An application for a warrant must be made without notice and must be supported by an information in writing or, in Scotland, evidence on oath.\n(3) The officer must answer on oath any question that the justice hearing the application asks the officer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 2 in force at 7.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(53)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/8/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:14.747207+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."
}