C HAPTER 2 C ARRYING OUT ASSESSMENTS AND WORK 11 Authority for carrying out assessment or work (1) A person carrying out, under an arrangement made under Chapter 1, a single-building 10 assessment, an additional work assessment or work is entitled by this subsection to do 1 anything reasonably required to carry out that assessment or work, including— (a) entering premises (subject to subsections (3) and (4)(a)), (b) taking other persons, and equipment, onto premises, (c) removing things from premises and arranging for their retention until claimed by 15 a person having a right of possession to them, (d) carrying out reasonable tests to determine the properties of any material. (2) Subsection (1) does not, of itself, entitle a person to use force to enter premises (for that a warrant is required under section 12). (3) Subsection (1) does not entitle a person to enter Crown premises without the owner’s 20 consent. (4) A person entitled to enter premises by subsection (1)— (a) is entitled by that subsection to do so— (i) only at a reasonable time of day, and (ii) only if the premises’ occupants have been given at least 24 hours’ notice 25 (subject to subsection (5)), (b) if requested to do so when seeking entry to the premises, or while on them, must produce written evidence of the legal basis for the person’s entitlement to enter them, (c) must leave the premises no less effectually secured against unauthorised entry as 30 the person found them. (5) The requirement for notice under subsection (4)(a)(ii) does not apply in an urgent situation. (6) A person’s entitlement to do anything mentioned in this section is subject to any contrary or qualifying provision in a warrant under section 12. 35 (7) Nothing in this section entitles a person to do any thing— (a) in breach of section 3(2), 3A(3) or 6(2), 8 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Powers to assess and address danger Chapter 2—Carrying out assessments and work (b) without any warrant, permission, consent or other approval (however described) from a public authority that would ordinarily be required in relation to doing the thing. 12 Warrant authorising use of force to effect entry 5 (1) The holder of a judicial office mentioned in subsection (6) may grant a warrant authorising a person entitled to enter premises by section 11(1) to use reasonable force in accordance with the terms of the warrant. (2) An application for a warrant under this section may be made only by the Scottish Ministers. 10 (3) A warrant under this section may be granted only if the judicial office-holder is satisfied, 1 by evidence on oath— (a) that there are reasonable grounds for the person to enter the premises for the purpose of doing something the person is entitled to do by section 11(1), and (b) that— 15 (i) entry to the premises has been refused, (ii) such a refusal is reasonably expected, (iii) the premises are unoccupied, (iv) the premises’ occupier is temporarily absent, (v...