Power of entry of local officers to take preventive measures

(1) The Health Officer or an officer not below the rank of a Sanitary Inspector authorised by him in this behalf may— (a) at all reasonable hours, inspect with or without assistance any place in which any notified disease is reported or suspected to exist, without notice in the case of factories, workshops, workplaces, offices, business places and the like and after giving such notice as may appear to him reasonable in other cases including dwelling houses, and (b) take such measures as he may consider necessary to prevent the spread of such disease beyond such place. (2) The powers conferred by sub-section (1) on the Health Officer may in any local area be exercised also by the executive authority or an officer not below the rank of Sanitary Inspector authorised by such authority.