{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/60",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The first set of access conditions is fulfilled if—\n(a) there are reasonable grounds for believing—\n(i) that an indictable offence has been committed;\n(ii) that there is material which consists of special procedure material or includes special procedure material and does not also include excluded material on premises specified in the application , or on premises occupied or controlled by a person specified in the application (including all such premises on which there are reasonable grounds for believing that there is such material as it is reasonably practicable so to specify);\n(iii) that the material is likely to be of substantial value (whether by itself or together with other material) to the investigation in connection with which the application is made; and\n(iv) that the material is likely to be relevant evidence;\n(b) other methods of obtaining the material—\n(i) have been tried without success; or\n(ii) have not been tried because it appeared that they were bound to fail; and\n(c) it is in the public interest, having regard—\n(i) to the benefit likely to accrue to the investigation if the material is obtained; and\n(ii) to the circumstances under which the person in possession of the material holds it,\nthat the material should be produced or that access to it should be given.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(a)(i) substituted (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 111, 178, Sch. 7 Pt. 3 para. 43(13); S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(a)(ii) added (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 113(11), 178; S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 1992 c. 5, s. 109D, Sch. 3ZC (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/28",
      "affecting_title": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/39",
      "affecting_title": "Courts Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/39",
      "affecting_title": "Courts Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2005/15",
      "affecting_title": "Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:58.179601+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."
}