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Apprenticeship
[1982 Ed.
Powers of entry and inspection.
Duty of public officers not to disclose source of complaint, etc.
35. The Director and an inspector may, for the purposes of this Ordinance (Amended, 13 of 1982, s. 11)
(a) enter, inspect and examine, by day or night, any premises or place in which he knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that an apprentice or a young person is employed;
(b) in any such case, take with him any person whom he may reasonably need to assist him;
(c) require the production, for purposes of inspection, of any record, return, report or other document relating to the employment of an apprentice or young person, and may take copies of any such document;
(d) make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the requirements of this Ordinance are complied with, and seize anything which may appear to be evidence of an offence under this Ordinance;
(e) examine, with respect to matters under this Ordinance, any person whom he finds in any premises or place which he is entitled under this section to enter, and require any such person to answer any questions relating to those matters and to make a statutory declaration as to the truth of the answers to those questions.
36. (1) Save as provided in subsection (4), no public officer shall disclose to any person, other than another public officer, the name or identity of any person who has made a complaint alleging a breach of any term or condition of a registered contract of apprenticeship or a contravention of any provision of this Ordinance or as a result of which any such breach or contravention has come to his notice or to the notice of any other public officer.
(2) No public officer shall disclose to an employer of a registered apprentice or his representative that a visit to the premises or place where an apprentice is employed was made in consequence of the receipt of any such complaint as is referred to in subsection (1).
(3) Save as provided in subsection (4), where as a result of or in connexion with the enforcement of a contract of apprenticeship or any provision of this Ordinance any manufacturing or commercial secret or any working process comes to the knowledge of a public officer, such officer shall not at any time (whether or not at the relevant time he is still a public officer) disclose such secret or process to any person.
(4) Where in any proceedings a court considers that justice so requires, the court may order the disclosure of the name or identity of any person who has made any such complaint as is referred to in subsection (1) or the disclosure of any such secret or process as is referred to in subsection (3).