Power to enter premises

(a) Any person authorised in this behalf by the prescribed authority may enter into any premises for the purpose of inspecting any water installation. (b) If such person is, at any time, refused admittance into such premises for the aforesaid purpose or is prevented from making such examination, the prescribed authority may, after giving notice of not less than twenty four hours, cut off the supply of water to that premises; Provided that if any such place is an apartment in the actual occupancy of a woman who, according to custom does not appear in public, such officer shall, before entering such apartment, give notice to such woman that she is at liberty to withdraw and shall afford her every reasonable facility for withdrawing, and may then enter the apartment.