34. — (1) Any person appointed in writing by the Company to be an authorised person for the purposes of this section (which person is subsequently in this section referred to as an authorised person) may at any reasonable time during the period beginning on the passing of this Act and ending on the day preceding the establishment day enter on any land for any one or more of the following purposes, namely;

(a) for inspecting and surveying the land and making thereon any inquiry, investigation or examination for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the land, or a right over the land is suitable for acquisition for an object of the Company,

(b) for inspecting and surveying the land and making thereon any investigation or examination preliminary or incidental to the acquisition for such object by the Company of the land or any right over the land,

(c) for inspecting, maintaining or repairing, or gaining access to, any pipeline or ancillary apparatus, equipment or other thing owned by the Company.

(2) An authorised person entering the land under this section shall have the powers which a person who is an authorised person for the purposes of section 26 of this Act has under subsection (2) of that section.

(3) Subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 26 of this Act shall apply in relation to entry on land under this section in the same manner as they apply to entry on land under the said section 26 and, for the purpose of giving effect to the foregoing,—

(a) each of the references in those subsections to an authorised person shall be construed as including a reference to a person authorised for the purpose of this section, and

(b) each of those subsections shall be construed subject to such other modifications as are requisite for the said purpose.