Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The executive authority or any person authorised by him in this behalf may enter into or on any building or land with or without assistants or workmen in order to make any inquiry, inspection, test, examination, survey, measurement or valuation or for the purpose of lawfully placing or removing pipes or meters or to execute any other work which is authorised by the provisions of this Act or of any rule or bye-law made thereunder or which it is necessary for any of the purposes of this Act or in pursuance of any of the said provisions to make or execute: Provided that --- (a) except when it is, in this Act, otherwise expressly provided, no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise; (b) except when it is, in this Act, otherwise expressly provided, no dwelling house and no part of a public building used as a dwelling place shall be entered into without the consent of the occupier thereof unless the said occupier has received at least six hours previous notice of the intention to make such entry; (c) sufficient notice shall be given in every case even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of any apartment appropriated to women to move to some part of the premises where their privacy may be preserved; (d) due regard shall be paid so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose of the entry to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises. 84 Power to give direction