Part 1: Counter-terrorism Chapter 2: Punishment and management of terrorist offenders Section 13: Power to enter and search home
This section inserts new section 56A into the 2008 Act which confers a power on the police to enter and search the home address of an RTO. New section 56A enables a justice of the peace in England and Wales (or a sheriff in Scotland or a magistrate in Northern Ireland), on application from a senior police officer (that is, a superintendent or above) of the relevant force, to issue a warrant to allow a constable to enter and search the home of an RTO for the purposes of assessing the risks that the RTO may pose to the community. The warrant must be executed by a constable of the police force in whose area the premises are located.
	New section 56A(2) sets out the requirements that must be met before the warrant may be issued.  These requirements set out that the address must be one that the RTO has notified to the police as his or her home address or one in respect of which there is a reasonable belief that the RTO can be regularly found there or resides there.  The RTO must not be in custody, detained in a hospital or outside the United Kingdom at the time.  A constable must have tried on at least two previous occasions to gain entry to the premises for the purpose of conducting a risk assessment and been unable to gain entry for that purpose.
	New section 56A(5) requires that the warrant specifies each address to which it relates.  New section 56A(6) allows a constable to use reasonable force if it is necessary to do so to enter and search the premises.  New section 56A(7) provides that the warrant can authorise as many visits as the justice of the peace, sheriff or magistrate, as the case may be, considers to be necessary for the purposes of assessing the risks posed by the offender which, by virtue of new section 56A(8), can be unlimited or limited to a maximum.