(1) Where the Assistant Executive Engineer intends to enter any building, premises or any land appurtenant thereto under the provisions of sections 25 to 28, he shall give to the occupier of such building or premises a reasonable prior notice as the urgency of the case may allow.
(2) The power conferred by sections 25 to 28 includes the power to break open the door of any premises for purposes of removing any obstruction or for undertaking inspection, survey, digging, clearing any crop, fence or jungle or doing repairs or preventing accidents or doing any other thing necessary for construction, maintenance or regulating the supply of an irrigation work :
Provided that the power to break open the door shall be exercised only after the owner or any other person in occupation of the premises, if he is present therein, refuses to open the door on being called to do so:
Provided further 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.
(3) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, Samvat 1989 shall, so far as may be, apply to any search or seizure under this section as they apply to any search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued under the said Code.