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L. S. NO. 2 TO GAZETTE NO. 23/2008 PART 3 10. Power of entry and examination

(1) Subject to subsection (3), if a health officer has reason to suspect that—
 * (a) a contact or a person infected with a specified infectious disease is present in a place;
 * (b) a case or suspected case of a specified infectious disease is connected with a place;
 * (c) there is a leakage of a scheduled infectious agent in a laboratory that may pose a public health risk; or
 * (d) a source of a specified infectious disease exists in a place other than a laboratory,

the health officer may enter the place or laboratory, or, where necessary, break into the place or laboratory in the presence of a police officer.

(2) On entering a place or laboratory under this section, a health officer may—
 * (a) ascertain whether a contact or a person infected with a specified infectious disease is present in that place;
 * (b) if there is a dead body in the place, examine the dead body for the purpose of ascertaining whether the body is infected with a specified infectious disease;
 * (c) seize any article or part of an article for examination or testing if he has reason to suspect that the article is—
 * (i) a source of a specified infectious disease; or
 * (ii) connected with a case or suspected case of a specified infectious disease; and
 * (d) take photographs or make any audio or video recording.

(3) Unless authorized by a warrant issued under subsection (4), a health officer shall not—
 * (a) enter any residential premises without the permission of its occupier or a person appearing to him to be in charge of the premises; or
 * (b) break into any residential premises.

(4) A magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any health officer to enter or break into any premises if the magistrate is satisfied by information on oath by a health officer that admission into the premises has been refused and that the premises is residential premises and—