Gas Safety Ordinance

(1)
Where a person fails to comply with a direction specified in an improvement notice in relation to a contravention of a requirement imposed by regulations made under
section 8(2
)(
a
)(
v)
, the Authority may himself, with or without notice to the person, take such measures as reasonably appear to him to be necessary in the interests of safety.
(2)
Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Authority may for the purpose of taking any measures under that
subsection—
(a)
enter upon the site of any works to which the improvement notice relates; and
(b)
remove by force any person obstructing the Authority in the taking of those measures.
(3)
The cost of any measures taken by the Authority under this section shall be recoverable by the Authority from the person who has failed to comply with the improvement notice, and shall be recoverable as a civil debt due to the Government.