Section 30: Power to enter land for certain purposes.

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, the Authority may, by its officers or agents with all necessary workmen and other servants, enter from time to time, on any lands for all or any of the purposes following
(a) the survey and taking of levels;
(b) the construction, placing, maintenance, examination, repair, alteration, or removal of any electric or main transmission line;
(c) the cutting and removal underneath or near, or on each side of, any proposed or existing electric or main transmission line of all such trees and underwood as may interfere or be likely to interfere with the construction or proper working of any such line;
(d) attaching to any wall, house or other building any bracket or other suitable fixture required for the carrying or support of an electric or main transmission line or any other electrical apparatus;
(e) any other work connected with the supply of electricity.
(2) Save as is otherwise specifically provided by section 31 of this Act, the Authority shall, when practicable, give notice to the occupier of any land on which it is intended to enter.
(3) For all or any of the purposes aforesaid, such officers, agents, workmen or other servants may remain on any such land for such reasonable time and execute and do all such work and things as may be necessary.
(4) The Authority shall not construct, place, maintain, examine, repair, alter, or remove any electric or main transmission line under, in, upon, over, along, or across any land, road, building, embankment, dock, harbour or pier under the control of a department of government or other public authority, without the prior approval of the head of the department concerned or of such public authority.
(5) Any electric or main transmission line placed across or over any road, shall be placed so as not to interfere with the passage along such road, and the Authority shall make good any road opened or broken up, for the purposes referred to in subsection (1) of this section.