Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

61 Entry warrant

• (1) An issuing officer (within the meaning of section 3 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012) who, on an application made in the manner provided for an application for a search warrant in subpart 3 of Part 4 of that Act, is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for believing that a dwellinghouse—

  • (a) is a place in which—

    • (i) a licensed immigration adviser, a former licensed immigration adviser, or a person who has applied for a licence, works; or

    • (ii) a person provides immigration advice, or employs or contracts another person to provide immigration advice; or

  • (b) is the only practicable means through which a place of the type referred to in paragraph (a) may be entered,—

  may issue a warrant authorising the person named in it to enter that dwellinghouse or any part of that dwellinghouse that is, or is the only practicable means through which the person may enter, a place of a kind referred to in paragraph (a).

  (2) The provisions of subparts 1, 3, and 9 of Part 4 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 apply in respect of an entry warrant.

  Section 61(1): amended, on 1 October 2012, by section 262(4) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).

  Section 61(2): replaced, on 1 October 2012, by section 262(5) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).