law: Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
  23. Power of Entry and Inspection.
  
  (1) Subject to the provisions of this section,
  
  any person empowered by a State Board in this behalf shall have a right at any
  
  time to enter, with such assistance as he considers necessary, any place -
  (a) for the purpose of
  
  performing any of the functions of the Board entrusted to him;
  (b) for the purpose of
  
  determining whether and if so in what manner, any such functions are to be
  
  performed or whether any provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder or
  
  any notice, order, direction or authorization served, made, given, or granted
  
  under this Act is being or has been complied with;
  
  
  (c) For the purpose of examining any plant, record, register, document or any
  
  other material object or for conducting a search of any place in which he has
  
  reason to believe that an offence under this Act or the rules made thereunder
  
  has been or is being or is about to be committed and for seizing any such
  
  plant, record, register, document or other material object, if he has reason to
  
  believe that it may furnish evidence of the commission of an offence punishable
  
  under this Act or the rules made thereunder :
  Provided that the right to enter under this
  
  sub-section for the inspection of well shall be exercised only at reasonable
  
  hours in a case where such well is situated in any premises used for
  
  residential purposes and the water thereof is used exclusively for domestic
  
  purposes.
  (2) The provisions of the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), or, in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir,
  
  the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that State, shall, so far
  
  as may be, apply to any search or seizure under this section as they apply to
  
  any search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued under
  
  section 94 of the said Code, or, as the case may be, under the corresponding
  
  provisions of the said law.
  Explanation: For the purposes of
  
  this section, "place" includes vessel.