Legislation – Renters’ Rights Act 2025
Part 4Enforcement
Chapter 3Investigatory powers
Investigatory powers under this Act
121Business premises: entry under warrant
(1)
A warrant under section 120 authorises the officer named in the warrant to enter the premises at any reasonable time, using reasonable force if necessary.
(2)
A warrant under that section does not authorise entry into premises used wholly or mainly as residential accommodation.
(3)
A warrant under that section ceases to have effect at the end of the period of one month beginning with the day it is issued.
(4)
An officer entering premises under a warrant under section 120 may be accompanied by such persons, and may take onto the premises such equipment, as the officer thinks necessary.
(5)
An officer entering premises under a warrant under section 120 may take photographs or make recordings.
(6)
If, when the officer enters the premises, the officer finds one or more occupiers on the premises, the officer must produce the warrant for inspection to that occupier or (if there is more than one) to at least one of them.
(7)
Subsection (8) applies if no occupier is present when the premises are entered.
(8)
On leaving the premises the officer must—
(a)
leave a notice on the premises stating that the premises have been entered under a warrant under section 120, and
(b)
leave the premises as effectively secured against trespassers as the officer found them.