part_subject: "ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS, PRACTICES, AND PROCEDURES"
subpart_code: "A"
subpart_subject: "Administrative Inspections"
section_number: "1316.12"
section_subject: "Refusal to allow inspection with an administrative warrant."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 1316.12"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Part 1300 to End"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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If a registrant or any person subject to the Act refuses to permit execution of an administrative warrant or impedes the inspector in the execution of that warrant, he shall be advised that such refusal or action constitutes a violation of section 402(a)(6) of the Act (21 U.S.C. 842(a)(6)). If he persists and the circumstances warrant, he shall be arrested and the inspection shall commence or continue.