{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-and-medical-devices-act-2021/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-and-medical-devices-act-2021/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/3",
  "legislation_title": "Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-and-medical-devices-act-2021",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Information notices",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the enforcement authority considers that a person has information which the enforcement authority needs for the purpose of deciding whether to—\n(a) serve or revoke a compliance notice,\n(b) serve or revoke a suspension notice, or\n(c) serve, vary or revoke a safety notice.\n(2) The enforcement authority may serve on the person a notice (an “information notice”) requiring the person—\n(a) to disclose to the enforcement authority information specified in the notice, within a period specified in the notice, or\n(b) to produce records specified in the notice at a time and place specified in the notice, and to permit a person appointed by the enforcement authority to take copies of the records at that time and place.\n(3) A period specified in reliance on subsection (2)(a) must be a period of at least 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice is served.\n(4) A time specified in reliance on subsection (2)(b) must be at least 28 days after the notice is served.\n(5) The enforcement authority may vary or revoke an information notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 26.5.2021 by S.I. 2021/610, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/3/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:59:13.676472+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."
}