Procedure where owner obstructs surveying, etc

Whenever it becomes necessary for the Director of Health Services or for a Town Council or any of his or their officers to enter, examine or lay open any lands or premises for the purposes of making plans, surveying, measuring, taking levels, making, keeping in repair or examining works, ascertaining the course of drains, or ascertaining or fixing boundaries, and the owner or occupier of such lands or premises refuses to permit the same to be entered upon, examined or laid open for the purposes mentioned in this section or any of them, the Director of Health Services or the Town Council, as the case may be, may after written notice to such owner or occupier apply to a magistrate for an order authorising him or them to enter, examine and lay open the said lands and premises for the purposes aforesaid or any of them.