Section 508. Forcible entry for purpose of executing warrant

508. It shall be lawful for a 1[Corporation] officer to whom a warrant issued under section 507 is addressed, to break open, at any time between sunrise and sunset, any outer or inner door or window of a building, in order to make the distress directed in the warrant in the following circumstances and not otherwise- (a) if the warrant contains a special order authorizing him in this behalf ; (b) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the building contains property which is liable to seizure under the warrant; and (c) if, after notifying his authority and purpose and duly demanding admittance he cannot otherwise obtain admittance : Provided that such officer shall not enter or break open the door of an apartment appropriated for women, until he has given any women therein an opportunity to withdraw.