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Section 15: Powers and duties of Inspectors

MATERNITY BENEFIT ACT, 1961 with Amendment Act 2017Union territory Act of Chandigarh · Act 53 of 1961

An Inspector may, subject to such restrictions or conditions as may be prescribed, exercise all or any of the following powers, namely: -

(a) enter at all reasonable times with such assistants, if any, being persons in the service of the Government or any local or other public authority as he thinks fit, any premises or place where women are employed or work is given to them in an establishment, for the purposes or examining any registers, records and notices required to be kept or exhibited by or under this Act and require their production for inspection;

(b) examine any person whom he finds in any premises or place and who, he has reasonable cause to believe, is employed in the establishment:

Provided that no person shall be compelled under this section to answer any question or give any evidence tending to incriminate himself:

(c) require the employer to give information regarding the names and addresses of women employed, payments made to them, and applications or notices received form them under this Act; and

(d) take copies of any registers and records or notices or any portions thereof.

Where this provision sits

ActMATERNITY BENEFIT ACT, 1961 with Amendment Act 2017
Section15
Marginal notePowers and duties of Inspectors
JurisdictionUnion territory of Chandigarh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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