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CHAPTER – VI RECOVERY OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL CLAIMS

Section 170: Forcible entry for purpose of executing warrant

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

(1) It shall be lawful for a municipal office to whom a warrant issued under section 169 is addressed, to break open, at any time between sunrise and sunset, any outer or inner door or window of a building in order to make the distress directed in the warrant in the following circumstances and not otherwise —

(a) if the warrant contains a special order authorizing him in this behalf, and

(b) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the building contains property which is liable to seizure under the warrant, and

(c) if, after notifying his authority and purpose and duly demanding admittance, he cannot otherwise obtain admittance.

(2) Provided that such officer shall not enter or break open the door of an apartment appropriated for women, until he has given any women therein an opportunity to withdraw.

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