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STATE LANDS PROTECTION
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(b) forcibly enter any premises without warrant, including by breaking open any outer or inner door or window leading to the premises and removing by force any obstruction to the entry, if the Commissioner or authorised officer (as the case may be) is unable to enter, or is refused entry to, the premises.
(3) After a sign, shrine, altar, religious object, shelter, structure or building is altered, demolished or removed under subsection (1), the Commissioner or an authorised officer must, as soon as practicable, serve a notice to any owner, or person having charge or control, of the sign, shrine, altar, religious object, shelter, structure or building—
(a) about the altering, demolition or removal of the sign, shrine, altar, religious object, shelter, structure or building and the moving it and any resulting debris to and detention at a holding yard or other place; and
(b) informing about—
(i) the manner by which and the time within which an owner of the sign, shrine, altar, religious object, shelter, structure or building, and any resulting debris, so detained may procure its release; and
(ii) the consequences that may follow under section 46A if the sign, shrine, altar, religious object, shelter, structure or building and any resulting debris is not claimed within the time specified in the notice.
(4) A notice under subsection (3) is not required if, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, the name and the business address, residential address or last email address of the owner, or person having charge or control, of the sign, shrine, altar, religious object, shelter, structure or building cannot be ascertained.