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Who has a statutory right of entry to my home?

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Who has a statutory right of entry to my home?

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If you are in the UK there is quite a list.The police have a number of powers of entry mostly without warrant but obviously also with,the fire service in order to preserve life and extinquish fire(not ambulance service),local authority enforcement officers such as enviromental health,customs officers,bailiffs,owners of the property,electric,gas and water services.These all have statory rights of entry where certain criteria must be fufilled and in most cases need a court order or warrant but not all.

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LR is right. Owners, agents of owners, and Law Enforcement with a warrant. If you invite someone over, they are an agent of the owner. You can always take away that agency (tell them to go away and not come back, etc.) In the case of landlords, they count as owners, but are often restricted by statute to emergencies, or with consent of tenant. That part depends on the state you’re in. In marital property states, a spouse will always have the right to entry, even if it’s not “their” property. So in Texas, I can’t buy a lakehouse and tell my wife she can’t come. She’s deemed by law to own half of it.

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It depends on what country you are in. In the UK, the police and other emergency services are subject to the Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). S.17 allows police to force an entry, i.e. without any consent from the owner, to any building, including a place of residence to a) search for a wanted person (ie execute an arrest warrant) if that person is reasonably believed to be on the premises b) search for any person on the run from prison / run off from police, if that person is reasonably believed to be on the premises c) to search for and arrest for a list of all sorts of offences – mostly serious ones though and d) to save life and limb and to protect property from serious harm. The last one is the most useful to police, fire brigade and ambulance, because we can beat the door down to get to little old ladies who have fallen over and can’t get up, or because we can smell gas inside and need to turn it off, or there is a smoke alarm going off and no-one answers the door et

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Trading Standards has the right to enter and inspect business premises without warrant under a range of regulations except where the premises are used “solely as a domestic dwelling” – if you are running a business from home then this is not the case and the powers do apply.

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