Entry and inspection

The Sarpanch of any Grama Panchayat and any other member, Officer or servant thereof specially authorised in this behalf by the Grama Panchayat may enter into or upon any building or land, with or without assistants or workmen, in order to make an inspection or survey or to execute a work which a Grama Panchayat is authorised by this Act or by rules or bye-laws made thereunder, to make or execute, or which it is necessary for a Grama Panchayat for any of the purposes or in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules or bye-laws to make or execute: Provided that– (a) except when otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in the rules or bye-laws no such entry shall be made between the hours of sunset and sunrise; (b) except when otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in the rules or bye-laws no building which is used as a human dwelling shall be so entered upon except with the consent of the occupier thereof without giving the said occupier not less than four hours' previous written notice of the intention to make such entry; (c) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice to enable the inmates of an apartment set apart for females to remove to some part of the premises where privacy shall no be disturbed; and (d) due regard shall always be paid to the social and religious usages of the occupation of the premises entered.