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Version date: 24 May 2024 - onwards

74 Power to enter business premises without a warrant

(1) For the purposes of a breach investigation, the CMA may authorise an officer of the CMA ("an investigating officer") to enter any business premises (see section 71(7)) and exercise the powers in subsection (5) if the CMA has reasonable grounds to suspect that information is on or accessible from the premises that is relevant to the breach investigation.

(2) No investigating officer is to enter any premises in the exercise of their powers under this section unless they have given to the occupier of the premises a notice which -

(a) gives at least two working days' notice of the intended entry,

(b) describes the subject matter and purpose of the breach investigation, and

(c) includes information about the possible consequences of not complying with the notice.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if -

(a) the CMA has a reasonable suspicion that the premises are, or have been, occupied by the undertaking which is the subject of the breach investigation, or