Section 5

(1)

The health officer or any person or persons appointed for the purpose by the local authority may enter at any time without previous notice and, if need be, by force into any place in which any infectious disease is reputed or suspected to exist or to have existed within 21 days prior thereto for the purpose of preventing the spread of the same.

The health officer may examine any person found in such place with a view to ascertaining whether such person is suffering or has recently suffered from any infectious disease.