Communications Act 2003

Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949

15 (1) Section 15 of that Act (powers of entry) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for paragraphs (a) and (b) and the words “, with or without any constables,” there shall be substituted “any constable or any person or persons authorised for the purpose by OFCOM or the Secretary of State”.

(3) After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(1A) Where a person authorised by OFCOM or the Secretary of State is authorised by a warrant under subsection (1) to enter any premises, he is to be entitled to exercise that warrant alone or to exercise it accompanied by one or more constables.”

(4) In subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraph (b), for the words from “enable” to “decide” there shall be substituted “enable OFCOM to decide”;

(b) in paragraph (c), for the words from “behalf” to “producing” there shall be substituted “behalf by OFCOM and producing”;

(c) in the words after paragraph (c), for the words from “behalf” to “with” there shall be substituted “behalf by OFCOM, with”;

(d) in paragraph (i) of the proviso, for the words from “that”, in the first place where it occurs, to “satisfied” there shall be substituted “that OFCOM are satisfied”.

(5) In subsection (2A) for “the BBC” there shall be substituted “OFCOM”.