48. District Officer may enter premises
Feedback & supportThe District Officer may, for the purposes of this Act, enter at all reasonable hours in the daytime into and upon any building or land for the purpose of making any survey or inspection without being liable to any legal proceedings or molestation whatsoever on account of such entry in pursuance of this Act:Provided that the District Officer shall not enter into any dwelling-house in actual occupation, unless with the consent of the occupier thereof, without 6 hours’ previous notice to the occupier.
building
“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure, support or foundation connected to the foregoing;
In the case of any class of premises for the control and supervision of which regulations may be made under this Act and which has been declared by the Minister pursuant to section 57 as being liable to night inspection, the District Officer may, at any time of the day or night without notice and using such force as may be necessary, enter into and search or inspect any such premises within the district.[86
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;