Public Health Act 2016

This section applies if a person given an enforcement order has not complied with the order —

within the period specified in the order under section 217(3)(d) or any extension of that period under section 218; or

if no period for compliance is specified, within the period that the enforcement agency reasonably believes to be sufficient for the order to have been complied with.

If this section applies, the enforcement agency may take any action the agency reasonably believes to be necessary to ensure that the order is complied with.

Without limiting subsection (2), for the purposes of that subsection an authorised officer designated by the enforcement agency may —

with any police officer or other person the enforcement agency considers necessary, enter any premises to which the enforcement order relates, using any force that is reasonably necessary to do so —

at any reasonable time; or

at any time, if the enforcement agency reasonably believes that the circumstances are sufficiently serious or urgent that immediate entry is required;

arrange to be disconnected or turned off, or to be reconnected or turned on, any electricity, gas, water or fuel supply, or any drainage facility, or any other service, in any premises to which the enforcement order relates; or

seize, detain, dispose of or isolate anything to which the enforcement order relates.

The regulations may make provision in respect of things detained, disposed of or isolated under subsection (3)(c).