The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint for any area specified therein an officer of the Labour Department not below the rank of District Labour officer to be an appellate authority for the purpose of performing the functions of the appellate authority under this Act, S. lnspectors:(1) The Government may; by notification in the Gazette, appointsuch officers* such persons as possess the prescribed qualifications, as they think fit, to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act and define the local limits within which they shall exercise their powers,
(2) Subject to any rules made in this behalf, an Inspector may, within the local limits for which he is appointed:- enter with such assistants, if any, being persons in the service of the Government or any local or public authority, as he thinks fit, any establishment wherein head load workers are employed or wherefrom work is given out to head load workers, for the purpose of examining any register, record of wages or notices required to be kept or exhibited under any scheme or rule made under this Act and require the production thereof either on the spot or in the office of the Inspector,
Provided that the Inspector shall not enter any establishment at any time between 7 pm. and 7 a,m except when work is being carried on in such establishment;
examine any person found in any such establishment, if he has reaspnable cause 1-1 to believe that such person is a head load worker employed therein or to whom work is given there from;
require any person giving any work to a head load worker or a group of Head load workers to give any information, which is in his power to give, in respect of the name and address of each of the person to whom the work is given and in respect of payments made or to be made for the said work, seize or take copies of such registers, records of wages or noUces or portions thereof, as he may consider relevant in respect of an offence under this Act or any scheme or rule made there under, which he has reason to believe has been committed by an employer; and exercise such other powers as may be irescribed.
Every employer shall afford an Inspector aU reasonable facillUes for rnaking an entry, inspection, c•xamination or enquiry under this Act.
[Ck111t1111 HOURS AND LIMITATIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES