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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/53",
  "legislation_title": "Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 (repealed 14th October 1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Inspection.",
  "text": "(1) Any person authorised in that behalf by a local health authoritya local social services authority may at all reasonable times enter any premises in the area of the authority which are used for the reception of children as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section one of this Act, and may inspect the premises and the children so received therein, the arrangements for their welfare, and any records relating to them kept in pursuance of this Act and may at all reasonable times enter the home of a person registered under section one of this Act by the authority, and may inspect it and any children received there as mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one of this Act, the arrangements for their welfare and any records relating to them kept in pursuance of this Act.\n(2) If any person authorised as aforesaid . . . has reasonable cause to believe that children are being received in a person’s home or in any other premises in contravention of section four of this Act, he may apply to a justice of the peace or in Scotland to the sheriff, and if the justice or sheriff is satisfied on sworn information in writing that . . . there is reasonable cause to believe that children are being received as aforesaid, the justice or sheriff may grant a warrant authorising the applicant to enter the home or other premises and carry out any such inspection as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.\n(3) A person who proposes to exercise any power of entry or inspection conferred by or under this section shall if so required produce some duly authenticated document showing his authority to exercise the power.\n(4) Any person who obstructs the exercise of any such power as aforesaid shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £25 in the case of a first offence or £50 in the case of a second or any subsequent offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “a local social services authority” substituted (E.W.) for words “a local health authority” by virtue to Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words added by Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46), s. 60(1)(11)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 31(5)(a)(6)(a)(9) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 289C(4)(a)(5)(a)(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 31(5)(a)(6)(b)(9) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 289C(4)(a)(5)(b)(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/53/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:43.292123+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."
}