{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/4",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power to observe carrying on of business etc.",
  "text": "(1) An officer of a local weights and measures authority may enter premises to which the public has access in order to observe the carrying on of a business on those premises.\n(2) The power under sub-paragraph (1) may be exercised at any reasonable time (whether or not the public has access at that time).\n(3) The power of entry under sub-paragraph (1) may be exercised without first giving notice or obtaining a warrant.\n(4) In this paragraph, “premises” includes any—\n(a) land or building,\n(b) vehicle, vessel, trailer, aircraft or hovercraft,\n(c) tent or moveable structure,\nexcept where the premises are used wholly or mainly as a private dwelling.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 35(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 5 in force at 1.7.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/127, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/4/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:11.818443+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."
}