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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-registration-regulations-2006/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/750",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Registration) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-registration-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Conditions attached to registration",
  "text": "(1) It shall be a condition of a person’s registration that, for the purposes only of paragraph (2) below , he shall allow a person authorised in writing for the purpose by the Secretary of State to enter any premises owned or occupied by any person appearing to him to be a registered person or an individual nominated in accordance with regulation 4 above, other than premises occupied exclusively for residential purposes as a private dwelling;\n(2) A person authorised in writing for the purpose by the Secretary of State may require any person appearing to be a registered person or an individual nominated in accordance with regulation 4 above to produce to him any documents for the purpose of assessing whether the registered person or individual nominated in accordance with regulation 4 above has complied with the conditions of registration.\n(3) A person exercising the power conferred by paragraph (1) above shall do so only at a reasonable hour.\n(4) A person exercising that power shall comply with any reasonable request (whether before or after entry is gained to the premises) by any person present on the premises to do any one or more of the following—\n(a) state the purpose for which the power is being exercised;\n(b) show the authorisation by the Secretary of State for his exercise of the power; and\n(c) produce evidence of his identity;\n(5) A person exercising that power shall make a record of the date and time of his entry, the period for which he remained there and his conduct while there.\n(6) If the person exercising that power is requested to do so by any person present on the premises at the time of entry, he shall provide that person with a copy of the record made under paragraph (5) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3006",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3006",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012"
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3006",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/750/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:10.723925+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."
}