District Cooling Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Administration
6. Power of Authority to enter upon any premises
Feedback & supportThe Authority may, for the purposes of this Act, by its employees, agents or contractors, enter at all reasonable hours (or at any time in the event of an emergency) into and upon any premises for the purpose of performing its duties authorised by this Act without being liable to pay any person any fee, charge or expense or being subject to any legal proceedings or molestation on account of the entry or of anything done in any part of the premises under this Act.
Except in the event of an emergency, such employee, agent or contractor may not enter upon any premises under this section unless —
premises
“premises” includes buildings, structures, streets, lands, waters, tenements, easements of any tenure, whether State land or not, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained under statutory authority or not;
not less than 6 hours’ notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier; and
if required to do so, he or she has produced evidence of his or her authority.