{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "section/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Execution of search and seizure warrants",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 (execution of search and seizure warrants) has effect.\n(2) An entry on or search of premises under a search and seizure warrant is unlawful unless it complies with that Schedule.\n(3) A police or customs officer may use reasonable force, if necessary, for the purpose of entering premises under a search and seizure warrant.\n(4) An offence is committed by a person who without reasonable excuse obstructs a police or customs officer executing or seeking to execute a search and seizure warrant.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 54 in force at 3.5.2015 by S.I. 2015/820, reg. 2(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/section/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:05.371498+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."
}