Section 4: Restriction on power of entry into consular offices.

(1) Subject to the provisions of any Act conferring diplomatic immunity or privilege, a consular office of a State to which this section applies, shall not be entered by a constable or other person acting in the execution of any warrant or other legal process or in the exercise of powers conferred by or under any enactment (whether enacted before or after the commencement of this Act), or otherwise, except with the consent of the consular officer in charge of that office or, if that consent be withheld or cannot be obtained, with the consent of a Minister of State:
Provided that the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply in relation to any entry effected-
(a)
in pursuance of the Police Act (which confers power to enter premises for the purpose of extinguishing fire) or any other enactment making provision corresponding with the provisions of that section;
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(b) by a constable having reasonable cause to believe that a crime involving violence has been or is being or is about to be committed in the consular office;
(c) by any person entitled to enter by virtue of any easement, contract or otherwise private right.
(2) This section shall not apply to any consular office which is for the time being in the charge of a consular officer who is a citizen of Nigeria or is not a national of the State by which that office is maintained.
(3) For the purpose of this section, the expression "consular office" means any building or part of a building which is exclusively occupied for the purposes of the official business of a consular officer.