{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-commonwealth-games-act-2008/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-commonwealth-games-act-2008/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2008/4",
  "legislation_title": "Glasgow Commonwealth Games Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-commonwealth-games-act-2008",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Power to enter and search",
  "text": "(1) An enforcement officer may, without warrant, enter any place and may search any place (and any vehicle, vessel, container or other thing at that place)—\n(a) where the officer reasonably believes a Games offence has been or is being committed, or\n(b) which the officer reasonably believes has been or is being used in connection with a Games offence.\n(2) An enforcement officer may take to a place entered by virtue of this section any other person, or any equipment, as may be reasonably required for the purposes of assisting the officer.\n(3) An enforcement officer who enters a place in pursuance of this section must take reasonable steps to leave the place at least as effectively secured against unauthorised entry as the officer found it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 29.11.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/261, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/4/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:46.050218+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."
}