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diff --git a/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt b/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt
index d3775905d3..de6c38c1e0 100644
--- a/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt
@@ -319,6 +319,21 @@ the :meth:`~BaseCommand.handle` method must be implemented.
checks, and list of database aliases in the ``databases`` to run database
related checks against them.
+.. method:: BaseCommand.get_check_kwargs(options)
+
+ .. versionadded:: 5.2
+
+ Supplies kwargs for the call to :meth:`check`, including transforming the
+ value of :attr:`requires_system_checks` to the ``tag`` kwarg.
+
+ Override this method to change the values supplied to :meth:`check`. For
+ example, to opt into database related checks you can override
+ ``get_check_kwargs()`` as follows::
+
+ def get_check_kwargs(self, options):
+ kwargs = super().get_check_kwargs(options)
+ return {**kwargs, "databases": [options["database"]]}
+
.. _ref-basecommand-subclasses:
``BaseCommand`` subclasses
diff --git a/docs/releases/5.2.txt b/docs/releases/5.2.txt
index 907159e36d..5e692c0345 100644
--- a/docs/releases/5.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/5.2.txt
@@ -279,6 +279,10 @@ Management Commands
``Command.autodetector`` attribute for subclasses to override in order to use
a custom autodetector class.
+* The new :meth:`.BaseCommand.get_check_kwargs` method can be overridden in
+ custom commands to control the running of system checks, e.g. to opt into
+ database-dependent checks.
+
Migrations
~~~~~~~~~~