{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2426",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Modification of Schedule 15 (powers of entry and inspection)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 15 has effect as if paragraph 3 were omitted.\n(2) Paragraph 1(1) of that Schedule (issue of warrants in connection with non-compliance and offences) has effect as if for paragraph (a) (but not the final “and”) there were substituted—\n“(a) there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that—\n(i) a person has failed or is failing to comply with a requirement of the PEC Regulations, or\n(ii) an offence under section 144, 148, or 148C or paragraph 15 of this Schedule has been or is being committed,”.\n(3) Paragraph 2 of that Schedule (issue of warrants in connection with assessment notices) has effect as if—\n(a) in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), for “controller or processor” there were substituted “person”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), for “the data protection legislation” there were substituted “the PEC Regulations”.\n(4) Paragraph 5 of that Schedule (content of warrants) has effect as if—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(c), for “the processing of personal data” there were substituted “an activity regulated by the PEC Regulations”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2)(d), for the words from “controller or processor” to the end there were substituted “person mentioned in paragraph 1(1)(a) has failed or is failing to comply with a requirement of the PEC Regulations”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3)(a) and (d)—\n(i) for “controller or processor” there were substituted “person mentioned in paragraph 2(1)”;\n(ii) for “the data protection legislation” there were substituted “the requirements of the PEC Regulations”.\n(5) Paragraph 11 of that Schedule (privileged communications) has effect as if, in sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (2)(b), for “the data protection legislation” there were substituted “the PEC Regulations”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (5.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), s. 142(1), Sch. 13; S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(z14) (with regs. 8-11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/schedule/1/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:58:14.928783+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."
}