Power to enter to prevent waste, etc.

30. Any officer authorized in this behalf by the Water Commission may at any time between sunrise and sunset, and subject to the observance of the custom of the country with regard to the entering of premises inhabited by Moslem women, enter into any house or premises supplied with water from any source under the control of the Water Commission in order to examine if there be any waste or misuse of water, or to execute any works or repairs in connection with the supply of the water, and if such officer at such time be refused admittance into such house or premises for the purpose aforesaid, or prevented from making such examination or works or repairs as aforesaid, the Water Commission may turn off the water supplied to such house or premises.