State Act

THE UNITED PROVINCES PANCHAYAT RAJ ACT, 1947

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2016), s.194(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

105- The [Pradhan]2 of the [Gram Panchayat]3 and, if authorized in this behalf by the [Gram Panchayat]3, any other member, officer or servant of the [Gram Panchayat]3 may enter into or upon any building or land, with or without assistants or workmen, in order to make an inspection or surveyor to execute a work which a [Gram Panchayat]3 is authorized by this Act or by rules or by-laws made thereunder, to make or execute, or which it is necessary for a [Gram Panchayat]3 for any of the purposes or in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or of rules or by-laws, to make or execute : Provided that- (a) except when it is in this Act or rules or by-laws otherwise expressly provided, no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise, and (b) except when it is in this Act or in rules or by-laws other- wise expressly provided, no building which is used as a human dwelling shall be so entered except with the consent of the occupier thereof and without giving the said occupier not less than four hours' previous written notice of the intention to make such entry, and (c) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given even when any premises can otherwise be entered without notice to enable the inmates of an apartment appropriated for females to remove to some part of the premises where their privacy shall not be disturbed, and (d) due regard shall always be had to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.