{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/schedule-12/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/schedule-12/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/50",
  "legislation_title": "Online Safety Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Powers exercisable by warrant",
  "text": "An authorised person executing a warrant may do any of the following for the purposes of OFCOM’s investigation into whether there is, or has been, a failure referred to in paragraph 5(1)(b)(i)—\n(a) enter the premises specified in the warrant;\n(b) search the premises;\n(c) inspect any documents or equipment found on the premises, or any information capable of being viewed using equipment or a device on the premises;\n(d) require any person on the premises to provide information, including requiring an explanation of any document found on the premises or any information capable of being viewed using equipment or a device on the premises;\n(e) require any person on the premises to produce any document in the person’s possession or control;\n(f) take copies of any document found on the premises or produced in response to a requirement under paragraph (e);\n(g) require information which is stored in electronic form and may be accessed from the premises to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible (or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form);\n(h) operate any equipment found on the premises for the purposes of producing such information in such a form;\n(i) require any person on the premises to give the authorised person any assistance that the authorised person may reasonably require (including for the purposes of paragraphs (g) and (h));\n(j) take copies of anything produced in accordance with paragraph (g);\n(k) seize any document found on the premises or produced in response to a requirement under paragraph (e), or anything produced in accordance with paragraph (g), or any equipment found on the premises;\n(l) open any container found on the premises;\n(m) take a photograph or video recording of anything found on the premises.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 7 in force at 10.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1420, reg. 2(z10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/schedule/12/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:44.494627+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."
}