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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009/schedule-17/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/23",
  "legislation_title": "Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the occupier of a dwelling that is to be entered under a warrant is present at the time when an enforcement officer seeks to execute the warrant, the following requirements must be satisfied—\n(a) the occupier must be told the officer's name;\n(b) the officer must produce to the occupier documentary evidence of the fact that the officer is an enforcement officer;\n(c) the officer must produce the warrant to the occupier;\n(d) the officer must supply the occupier with a certified copy of it.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the occupier of a dwelling that is to be entered under a warrant is not present when an enforcement officer seeks to execute it, but\n(b) some other person who appears to the officer to be in charge of the dwelling is present,\nsub-paragraph (1) has effect as if any reference to the occupier were a reference to that other person.\n(3) If there is no person present who appears to the enforcement officer to be in charge of the dwelling, the officer must leave a certified copy of the warrant in a prominent place in the dwelling.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 9 in force at 12.1.2010 by S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/schedule/17/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:47.916077+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."
}