Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 · Updated to 2 Mar 2016 · Part IV · Investigation and Enforcement
10C. Obstruction to exercise of powers by an Inspector
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refuse any Inspector exercising his powers under section 10A or 10B access to any premises or any part of such premises, or fail to submit to the search of his person;
assault, obstruct, hinder or delay such Inspector in effecting any entrance which he is entitled to effect;
fail to comply with any lawful demands of any Inspector in the execution of his duties under section 10A or 10B;
refuse to give to an Inspector any information which may reasonably be required of him and which he has it in his power to give;
fail to produce to, or conceal or attempt to conceal from, an
Inspector, any property, book, other document, or article in relation to which an Inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence has been or is being committed under this Act;
rescue or endeavour to rescue any thing which has been duly seized;
furnish to the Inspector as true any information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false; or
before or after any seizure, break or otherwise destroy any thing to prevent the seizure or the securing of the thing.
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housing development
“housing development” means to develop or construct or cause to be constructed in any manner whatsoever more than four units of housing accommodation and includes the collection of moneys or the carrying on of any building operations for the purpose of erecting housing accommodation in, on, over or under any land; or the sale of more than four lots of land or building lots with the view of constructing more than four units of housing accommodation;