Legislation – Renters’ Rights Act 2025
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Part 4Enforcement
Chapter 3Investigatory powers
Investigatory powers under this Act
129Suspected residential tenancy: entry under warrant
(1)
A warrant under section 128 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 ceases to have effect when the inspection of the premises has been completed.
(3)
An officer entering premises under a warrant under section 128 may be accompanied by such persons, and may take onto the premises such equipment, as the officer thinks necessary.
(4)
An officer entering premises under section 128 may take photographs or make recordings.
(5)
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.
(6)
Subsection (7) applies if no occupier is present when the premises are entered.
(7)
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 128, and
(b)
leave the premises as effectively secured against trespassers as the officer found them.