Power of entry

The Chairman may authorise in writing, any person either generally or specially to enter into or upon any land, in order to- (a) make inspection, survey, measurement, valuation or inquiry ; (b) take levels ; (c) dig or bore into the sub-soil ; (d) set up boundaries and intended lines of work ; (e) cut trenches ; or (f) do any other thing, whenever it is necessary to do so, for any of the purposes of this Act or any rules made or scheme sanctioned thereunder : Provided that- (ii) no dwelling house and no public building which is used as a dwelling-house, shall be so entered, even with the consent of the occupier thereof, and without giving the said occupier at least twenty-four hours' notice to make such entry; (iii) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given, even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of any apartment occupied by women to remove themselves to some part of the premises where their privacy will not be disturbed ; (iv) due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purposes for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.