{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/2",
  "legislation_title": "Psychoactive Substances Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the occupier of premises to be entered and searched under a search warrant is present at the time when a relevant enforcement officer seeks to execute the warrant, the following requirements must be satisfied—\n(a) the occupier must be told the officer's name;\n(b) if not a constable in uniform, the officer must produce to the occupier documentary evidence that the officer is a relevant enforcement officer;\n(c) the officer must produce the warrant to the occupier;\n(d) the officer must supply the occupier with a copy of it.\n(2) Where the occupier of premises to be entered and searched under a search warrant is not present at the time when a relevant enforcement officer seeks to execute the warrant—\n(a) if some other person who appears to the officer to be in charge of the premises is present, sub-paragraph (1) has effect as if a reference to the occupier were a reference to that other person;\n(b) if not, the officer must leave a copy of the warrant in a prominent place on the premises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 10 in force at 26.5.2016 by S.I. 2016/553, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/2/schedule/3/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:34.525412+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."
}