(1)This section applies if a judge makes a production order requiring a person to give an appropriate officer access to material on any premises.
(2)The judge may, on an application made to him by an appropriate officer and specifying the premises, make an order to grant entry in relation to the premises.
(3)An order to grant entry is an order requiring any person who appears to an appropriate officer to be entitled to grant entry to the premises to allow him to enter the premises to obtain access to the material.
Cases considering section 347 3
[2014] EWCA Crim 52 · 24 January 2014
The restriction of disclosure-order applications to appropriate officers demonstrates the statutory distinction between investigation and prosecution. It does not prevent a private prosecutor from conducting confiscation with appropriate assistance. (see paras [30]-[32])
[2010] EWCA Civ 907 · 29 July 2010
Section 347 was referred to as an order-to-grant-entry power within the group of Part 8 investigative powers. (see para [61])
[2014] EWHC 2523 (Admin) · 25 July 2014
Permits a production order to be reinforced by an order granting entry. The court regarded this as a less intrusive alternative which the police had not adequately addressed before seeking a warrant (see paras [12], [34]-[35]).
What each judgment says about section 347 is in the case-law panel in the full Act.
508.This section clarifies the power previously contained in section 93H(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (as amended), section 55(5) of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 and Article 50(5) of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 to grant entry along with a production order authorising access to material (rather than an order to produce material). This power might be used, for example, to enable an appropriate officer to be granted entry to a building in circumstances where a production order had been made in respect of material in a particular office in that building.