{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006/article-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006/article-38.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1643",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "article/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Power to enter premises used wholly or mainly as a dwelling",
  "text": "(1) The power to enter premises conferred by articles 31, 33 and 37 may be exercised by an inspector to enter premises used wholly or mainly as a dwelling only if he or she has been granted a warrant by a justice of the peace.\n(2) A justice of the peace may grant a warrant under paragraph (1) only if he or she is satisfied—\n(a) that admission to any premises has been refused, or is likely to be refused, or that the case is one of urgency, or that a request for admission might prejudice the purpose of the entry; and\n(b) that there are reasonable grounds for entry under articles 31, 33 or 37 as the case may be.\n(3) A warrant granted under paragraph (1) must remain in force—\n(a) for one month; or\n(b) until the purpose for which the warrant is granted has been fulfilled,\nwhichever period is the shorter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2010/1795",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1643/article/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:30.295456+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."
}