Inspectors and their powers.
1 Edw. 7,
c. 22, s. 119.
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(6) "Proprietor" includes a body corporate and a firm.
(7) "Protector" means any person appointed by the Governor to be the Protector of Labour for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(8) "Workshop" means any premises or place other than a factory wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to making any article or part of any article, or altering, repairing, ornamenting or finishing or adapting for sale any article, provided that at least 20 persons are employed in manual labour in the said premises or in the close, curtilage and precincts thereof.
(9) "Young person' means any person of or over the age of 16 years and under the age of 18 years.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint Inspectors and Assistant Inspectors of Labour, Factories and Workshops.
(2) The Protector and every Inspector shall have the following powers :---
(a) power to enter, inspect and examine at all reasonable times, by day and night, any place or premises in which he knows of has reasonable cause to believe that an industrial undertaking is carried on.
(b) power to take with him in any such case any person whom he may reasonably need in order to assist him carrying out his duties under this Ordinance;
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(c) power to require the production of any register or other documents required to be kept under this Ordinance, and to inspect, examine and copy the same;
(d) power to make such examination and enquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the requirements of this Ordinance are being complied with, and to seize any thing which may appear to be evidence of any offence against this Ordinance;
(e) power to examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this Ordinance, every person whom he finds in any industrial undertaking to which the regulations made under this Ordinance for the time being apply, or whom he has reason- able cause to believe to have been within the preceding two months employed in any such industrial undertaking, and to require every such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he has been so examined;
(f) any other powers which may be conferred by any regulation made under this Ordinance and any other powers which may be necessary for carrying this Ordinance into effect.
(3) No person shall obstruct or delay the Protector or any Inspector in the exercise of any of the above powers."
(4) Every person who employs or has employed any woman, young person or child in an industrial undertaking, and every servant of any such employer, shall on demand give to the Protector or to any Inspector all information in his possession with reference to such woman, young person
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