You can be visited by certain people at reasonable times. They are medical officers of health, health protection officers, or people authorised by them. They can enter your home, building, or land to inspect it.

You should know that these people can also do work on your property if it is allowed by the Health Act. They must have a good reason to enter and inspect your property. They can only enter at reasonable times.

These people are allowed to enter your property to make sure the Health Act is being followed, and they can do this because of the Health Amendment Act 1988.

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127: Attendance of medical officer of health at meetings of local authorities, or

"Local doctors can join council meetings to talk about community health"

128A: Building Act 2004, or

"Rules for checking buildings are safe and meet standards"

Part 7Miscellaneous provisions

128Power of entry and inspection

For the purposes of this Act any medical officer of health, or any health protection officer, or any other person authorised in writing in that behalf by the medical officer of health or by any local authority, may at all reasonable times enter any dwellinghouse, building, land, ship, or other premises and inspect the same, and may execute thereon any works authorised under or pursuant to this Act.

Notes

Section 128: amended, on 26 July 1988, pursuant to section 2(5) of the Health Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 99).