Does British Gas have the right to obtain a warrant

[Malle329]

I am just enquiring if British Gas use a genuine warrant or a fraudulent warrant to gain access into somebody’s property

[efpom]

You need to provide some facts.

[jaguarsuk]

Yes they can obtain a genuine Magistrates Warrant in certain circumstances, it is an offence to obstruct the execution of it and so you need to elaborate as to what circumstance they are seeking one?

[efpom]

See County Courts Act 1984

135 Penalty for falsely pretending to act under authority of court.

Any person who—

(a)delivers or causes to be delivered to any other person any paper falsely purporting to be a copy of any summons or other process of [F1the county court] , knowing it to be false; or

(b)acts or professes to act under any false colour or pretence of the process or authority of [F1the county court] ;

shall be guilty of an offence and shall for each offence be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.

[jaguarsuk]

See County Courts Act 1984

135 Penalty for falsely pretending to act under authority of court.

Any person who—

(a)delivers or causes to be delivered to any other person any paper falsely purporting to be a copy of any summons or other process of [F1the county court] , knowing it to be false; or

(b)acts or professes to act under any false colour or pretence of the process or authority of [F1the county court] ;

shall be guilty of an offence and shall for each offence be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.

Warrants obtained by energy suppliers are obtained in the Magistrates Court and not the County Court because the require the consent to forcibly enter the property.

The OP needs to give more detail to be able to firstly understand why they are seeking or have sought a warrant of entry and then we can advise what potentially can be done to prevent it or execution of it.

The most common cause is the occupier of the property being in debt to the supplier and the supplier wanting to fit a prepayment meter, but there are other reasons they can seek to enter a property.