(1) Every employer shall submit to such authority a return in such form and containing such particulars relating to the persons employed by him or to an establishment in respect of which he is an employer, as may be prescribed.
(2) Where in respect of any establishment, the authority prescribed under subsection (1), (hereinafter referred to as "the prescribed authority") has reason to believe that a return required to be submitted under sub-section (1) has not been so submitted, the prescribed authority may require any per- son in charge of the establishment to furnish such particulars as it may consider necessary for the purpose of enabling it to decide whether the establishment is an establishment to which this Act applies.
(3) Every employer shall maintain such registers or records in respect of his establishment as may be prescribed.
8. Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every local authority to enforce, within the area subject to its jurisdiction, the provisions of this Act, subject to such supervision of the State Government as may be prescribed :
Provided that the local authority may by order direct that the said duty of enforcing the provisions of this Act shall be discharged, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions if any as may be specified in the order, by its Chief Executive Officer or any other Officer subordinate to it.
Provided further that in respect of the areas not subject to the jurisdiction of any local authority, it shall be the duty of the State Government to enforce the said provisions.
9. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, the State Government may, by a notification in the Official Gazette, direct that in the areas subject to the jurisdiction of such local authority as may be specified in the notification the provisions of this Act shall be enforced by the State Government from such date and for such period as may be specified in the notification and there upon such local authority and officers of such local authority shall be discharged from the duty of enforcing the provisions of this Act within such area from the date and for the period as so specified :
Provided that the bye-laws, if any, made by the local authority under section 10 and in force in such areas before the date so specified shall continue to be in force with amendments, if any, made therein, until such bye-laws are amended or superseded by the State Government.
10. A local authority on which a duty is imposed under section 8 to enforce the provisions of this Act may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, make bye-laws not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act or the rules or orders made by the State Government thereunder, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Employers to furnish return and maintain registers.
Powers and duties of local authorities.
Power of State Government to enforce provisions of Act within areas of local authorities.
Power to make byelaws.
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