Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsProcedure where ingress not obtainable
| 25. If ingress to such place cannot be obtained under section 24 it shall be lawful in any case for a person acting under a warrant, or in any case in which a warrant may issue but cannot be obtained without affording the person' to be arrested an opportunity of escape, for a peace officer to enter such place and search therein, and in order to effect an entrance into such place to break open any outer or inner door or window of any place whether that of the person to be arrested or of any other person, if after notification of his authority and purpose and demand of admittance duly made he cannot otherwise obtain admittance. |