Section 222 in The U.P. Kshettra Panchayats And Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961
222. Power of inspection.
- The Adhyaksha, the Mukhya Adhikari and if authorized in this behalf by resolution any other member, officer or servant of the Zila Panchayat and similarly the Pramukh, the Khand Vikas Adhikari or any other officer of the Kshettra Panchayat authorised in this behalf by the Khand Vikas Adhikari may enter into or upon a building or land with or without assistants or workmen, in order to make an inspection or survey or to execute a work which the Zila Panchayat or, as the case may be, the Kshettra Panchayat is authorized by this Act or by rules or bye-laws, to make or execute, or which it is necessary for the Zila Panchayat or the Kshettra Panchayat for any of the purposes or in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of rules or bye-laws, to make or execute:Provided that -(a)except when it is in this Act or in rules or bye-laws otherwise expressly provided, no entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise; and(b)except when it is in this Act or in rules or bye-laws otherwise expressly provided, no building which is used as a human dwelling shall be so entered, except with the consent of the occupier thereof, without giving the said occupier not less than four hour's previous written notice of the intention to make such entry; and(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 appropriated for females to remove to some part of the premises where there privacy need not be disturbed; and(d)due regard shall always be had to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.
