(1) Any person, registered under this Act, shall, at all times, on demand, produce and show his certificate of registration or any other document required under this Act to —
(a) the prescribed authority or any officer duly authorized by him in this behalf; and
(b) any Engineer of the State Government.
Explanation. — For the purposes of this section, the expression "Engineer" means the Engineer belonging to the cadre of the West Bengal Senior Service of Engineers, the West Bengal Senior Service of Engineers (Electrical/ Mechanical), the West Bengal Service of Engineers, the West Bengal Service of Engineers (Electrical/ Mechanical), the West Bengal Subordinate Engineering Service (Electrical/ Mechanical) of the State Government.
(2) Any person, registered under this Act, who refuses, on demand, to show his certificate or documents or disallows it to be read by any of the persons authorized to demand it, shall be liable to punishment with fine not exceeding rupees five hundred.
14. Any person, who wilfully obstructs or offers any resistance to, or otherwise interferes in the discharge of, the functions of the prescribed authority or any Engineer, referred to in sub-section (1) of section 13, exercising any power or performing any duty conferred or imposed upon him in pursuance of this Act or the rules made thereunder, shall be liable to punishment with imprisonment which shall not be less than three years but may extend to seven years.
Institution of proceedings.
15. No prosecution shall be instituted against any person for any offence under this Act except on a complaint made by the prescribed authority or a Police Officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector.
Certificate of 21. The certificate of registration shall be certified by the person holding it in a conspicuous registration to be place at the principal place of his business and if he has no place of business, he shall keep it on kept prohibited.
his person.
PART III ] THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, APRIL 6, 2006' The West Bengal Public Works Contragts (Regulation and Control) Act, 2006.
(Chapter IV —Offences and Penalties.—Sections 16,17.—Chapter V — Miscellanous.—Sections 18-23.)
Powers of the prescribed authority to summon and en force attendance of witnesses and other persons.
16. The prescribed authority shall have all the powers as of Civil Court constituted under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, while trying a suit, in respect of the following matters, namely :—
(1) summoning and enforcing the attendance of the complainant or the person against whom complaint is made under this Act and the witnesses required in connection therewith;
(2) compelling the production of any document; and
(3) examining witnesses on oath;
and may summon and examine suo moto any person whose evidence appears to be material.
Explanation.— For the purposes of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and other • persons mentioned in this section, the local limits of the jurisdiction of the prescribed authority extend to the whole of the State of West Bengal.
Composition of offences.