{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/section-18B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/section-18B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/69",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981",
  "path": "section/18B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18B",
  "heading": "Group 1 offences and licences: power to enter premises",
  "text": "(1) A wildlife inspector may, at any reasonable time, enter and inspect any premises—\n(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether a Group 1 offence is being or has been committed;\n(b) for the purpose of—\n(i) verifying any statement or representation made, or document or information supplied, by an occupier in connection with an application for, or the holding of, a Group 1 licence, or\n(ii) ascertaining whether any condition to which a Group 1 licence was subject has been complied with.\n(2) In this Part—\n“Group 1 offence” means an offence under section 1, 5, 9(1), (2) or (4), 11, 13(1) or 14ZA, and\n“Group 1 licence” means a licence authorising anything which would otherwise be a Group 1 offence.\n(3) Nothing in this section confers power to enter a dwelling.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 18A-18F inserted (E.W.) (31.5.2006) by Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16), ss. 52, 107, Sch. 5 para. 1; S.I. 2006/1382, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 18B applied (with modifications) (31.5.2006) by Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16), ss. 52, 107, Sch. 5 para. 7-11; S.I. 2006/1382, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69/section/18B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:49.503545+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."
}