Any—
(a) housing court or assessor; or
(b) member, assistant or adviser of a board;
may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any building which is the subject of proceedings before a housing court or is within the provisional clearance area concerned, as the case may be.
(2) Any member or employee of an authority authorized in writing by the authority todo so may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any building which, on reasonable grounds, he suspects to be of an unsatisfactory standard or overcrowded.
(3) The powers referred to in subsections (1) and (2) may be exercised, mutatismutandis, in relation to proceedings for a control order or, as the case may be, for the purpose of investigating premises in regard to which there is reasonable grounds for believing that it might form the subject of a control order:
Provided that this subsection shall not be construed as conferring any right to enter or search any dwelling-house without the consent of the occupant thereof.
(4) Any person who—
(a) obstructs or hinder any person referred to in subsection (1), (2) or (3)in the exercise of his powers or the carrying out of his duties in terms of that subsection; or
(b) knowingly gives false information or gives information which he does not know or believe to be true to any person referred to in, and exercising the powers conferred by, subsection (1), (2) or (3);
shall be guilty of an offence.