Powers of officers.
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Officers to produce certificates when required.
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each offence to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and the court may by the conviction, in addition to imposing a fine, adjudge him to repay to the worker or other person by whom the payment was made the sum improperly received by way of premium.
10.--(1) Any officer of any Government Department for the time being assisting in carrying this Ordinance into effect shall have power for the performance of his duties-
(a) to require the production of wages sheets or other record of wages by an employer, and records of payments made to outworkers by persons giving out work and to inspect and examine the same and copy any material part thereof;
(b) to require any person giving out work and any out- worker to give any information which it is in his power to give with respect to the names and addresses of the persons to whom the work is given out or from whom the work is received, as the case may be, and with respect to the payments to be made for the work;
(c) at all reasonable times to enter any factory or work- shop or any place used for giving out work to outworkers;
(d) to inspect and copy any material part of any list of outworkers kept by an employer or person giving out work to outworkers; and
(e) to examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to any matters under this Ordinance any person whom he finds in any factory or workshop or any place used for giving out work to outworkers, or whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be or to have been a worker in any trade to which a minimum rate under this Ordinance is applicable, and to require every such person to be so examined, and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters in respect of which he is so examined.
(2) If any person fails to furnish the means required by an officer as necessary for any entry or inspection or the exercise of his powers under this section, or if any person hinders or molests any officer in the exercise of the powers given by this section, or refuses to produce any document or give any information which any officer requires him to produce or give under the powers given by this section, that person shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and, if any person makes, or causes to be made, or knowingly allows to be made any wages sheet, or record of wages, or record of payments, or any list of outworkers which is false in
any material particular, or produces or causes to be produced, or knowingly allows to be produced any such sheet, record or list to any officer acting in the exercise of the powers given by this section, knowing the same to be false, or furnishes any information to any such officer knowing the same to be false, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
11. Every officer of any Government Department for the time being assisting in carrying this Ordinance into effect, shall be furnished by the Labour Officer with a certificate of his appointment, and when acting under any or exercising any power conferred upon him by this Ordinance, shall, if so
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