{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/131",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Warrants",
  "text": "(1) A warrant under section 98 or 102 may be executed by any enforcement officer.\n(2) A warrant under section 98 or 102 may authorise persons to accompany any enforcement officer who is executing it.\n(3) A person authorised under subsection (2) to accompany an enforcement officer may exercise any power conferred by this Part which the officer may exercise as a result of the warrant.\n(4) But the person may exercise such a power only in the company of, and under the supervision of, an enforcement officer.\n(5) Schedule 8 contains further provision about—\n(a) applications for warrants under section 98 or 102, and\n(b) warrants issued under section 98 or 102.\n(6) The entry of premises under a warrant issued under section 98 or 102 is unlawful unless it complies with the provisions of Part 3 of that Schedule (execution of warrants).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 131 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 131 in force at 7.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(32)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/131",
    "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."
}