Appoint ment of Com- missioner and other officers.
Powers of officers.
3. The Governor may appoint a Commissioner of Labour, a deputy commissioner of labour, labour officers, assistant labour officers. a Superintendent of Labour, a Chief Labour Inspector, senior labour inspectors and labour inspectors and such other officers as he may consider necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
4. (1) The Commissioner and any assistant labour officer appointed under section 3 and any inspector shall have the following powers—
(a) to enter, inspect and examine at all reasonable times, by day and night, any premises or place in which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that an industrial undertaking is being carried on;
(b) to take with him in any such case any person whom he may reasonably need to assist him in carrying out his duties under this Ordinance;
(e) to require the production of any register or other docu- ment required to be kept under this Ordinance and inspect, examine and copy the same;
(d) to 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 against this Ordinance;
(e) to examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this Ordinance, any person whom he finds in any industrial undertaking, or whom he has reasonable cause to believe has been within the preceding two months employed in any industrial undertaking, or require any such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which be has been so examined;
() to require any person who employs or has employed any woman, young person or child in an industrial under- taking or any agent or servant of any such employer to give to him all information in the possession of such person, agent or servant with reference to such woman, young person or child and to the labour conditions and treatment of every woman, young person and child employed by such employer:
(g) to remove and detain for inquiries in a place of refuge appointed under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to women, young persons or children any young person or child whom he finds in any place in or in respect of which he has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been com- mitted;
() to require the posting of any notice in connexion with the provisions of this Ordinance or any matter related to the manufacture carried out, or machinery, plant, process or persons employed in any industrial under- taking; and
(0) any other powers which may be conferred by any
regulation made under this Ordinance.
(2) Any Health Officer, any Fire Brigade Officer with the written authority of the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade and any officer specially authorized by the Commissioner and subject to such directions as he may impose, may at any time enter and inspect any industrial undertaking for the purpose of ascertaining whether the requirements of this Ordinance are complied with.
(3) The powers conferred by this Ordinance on any officer shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any other powers which such officer may possess.
6. (1) The Commissioner of Labour may in respect of Power of industrial undertakings by regulations prescribe or provide for- missioner
(a) prohibiting or controlling the employment of all persons of Labour
or any class of persons in dangerous trades or scheduled regula- trades;
(b) prohibiting or controlling the employment of women, young persons and children in industrial undertakings, and requiring registers to be kept of women, young persons and children employed in industrial under- takings;
(c) imposing obligations for securing compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance upon persons who employ women, young persons or children in industrial under- takings and upon the agents and servants of such persons;
(d) defining the duties and powers of assistant labour officers
and inspectors;
to make
tiona, etc.