{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013/section-17",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2013/2",
  "legislation_title": "Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Power of entry",
  "text": "(1) An authorised officer of a food authority may, on production of the officer's written authority if demanded, enter at all reasonable hours a food business establishment for the purpose of—\n(a) producing a food hygiene rating;\n(b) carrying out a re-rating;\n(c) determining an appeal under section 5; or\n(d) enforcing any of the requirements in section 7.\n(2) But in the case of entry into any part of an establishment used only as a private dwelling 24 hours' notice of the intended entry must be given to the operator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 28.11.2013 by S.I. 2013/2617, art. 3(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/2/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:32.425552+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."
}