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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000/schedule-10/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000/schedule-10/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/11",
  "legislation_title": "Terrorism Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An officer may—\n(a) stop a person in a public place, and\n(b) search him for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has munitions unlawfully with him or wireless apparatus with him.\n(2) An officer may search a person who—\n(a) is not in a public place, and\n(b) whom the officer reasonably suspects to have munitions unlawfully with him or to have wireless apparatus with him.\n(3) An officer may search a person entering or found in a dwelling entered under paragraph 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/schedule/10/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:13.340901+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."
}