(1) The municipal council or any officer appointed by it for such purposes may, subject to the provisions of this Act, inspect any sewer, drain, privy, water closet, house-gully or cesspool, and for that purpose, at any time between sunrise and sunset, may enter upon any lands or buildings with assistants and workmen and cause the ground to be opened where he or it may think fit, doing as little damage as may be.

(2) The expense of such inspection, and of causing the ground to beclosed and made good as before, shall be borne by the municipal council unless the sewer, drain, privy, water-closet, house-gully or cesspool is found to be in bad order or condition, or was constructed in contravention of the provisions of any enactment, or of any bye-law of the municipal council in force at the time, in which case such expenses shall be paid by the owner of such sewer, drain, privy, water-closet, house-gully or cesspool, and shall be recoverable in the same manner as an amount claimed on account of any tax recoverable under Chapter VII.