Full legislation
s.91
Entry and forcible entry
(1)
A bailiff or officer appointed to execute a warrant may break open inner
doors.
(2)
If he is denied admittance to any building in respect of which he has a warrant
to distrain, after declaring his name and business, or if, after waiting a
reasonable time, no person answers or is in the building, he may apply to the court
for authority to break open outer doors and windows, so far as may be necessary to
enable him to execute the warrant.
(3)
The court, on being satisfied, by the affidavit of the bailiff or officer, that
there are no reasonable means of executing the warrant without breaking open the
outer doors or windows, may grant an order in writing, addressed to a bailiff,
authorizing him to break open, or have broken open, the doors and windows.
(4)
Before executing such order, however, the bailiff shall inform any person in or
about the building that he has such order and that he is about to act on it, unless
the doors or windows are opened.
(Amended
50 of
1911
)
(
1 of 1883 ss. 17
& 18 incorporated)