Part 2: Digital infrastructure Section 11: Search warrants under Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006
Section 97 of the 2006 Act makes provision for Ofcom’s powers of entry, search and seizure. Subsection 97(3) defines the ‘relevant period’ during which a search warrant may be used.
	This section amends the definition of ‘relevant period’ in subsection 97(3) so that a search warrant is valid from when it is granted, and ends three months after the end of the day on which the warrant is granted (except in Scotland or Northern Ireland where the reference to three months is to be read as a reference to one month). It enables Ofcom (or whomever is empowered to act by the warrant) to enter and search a property from the time that the warrant is issued or at any time until the end of a three-month period running from the end of that day.