6. The competent authority shall have power-
| (a) to enter and inspect at all reasonable hours of the day or night any place in which employees are employed for the purpose of examining any register or record of wages, or of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with; or |
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| (b) where any such record or register is not available for examination when he is inspecting such place, to require the production of such register or record on a specified later date for examination at such place or at the office of such authority; or |
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| (c) to take copies of the whole or any part of any such register or record; or |
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| (d) to interrogate any person whom he finds in such place and whom such authority has reason-able cause to believe is an employer or an employee engaged or employed in any trade, industry, business or occupation carried on in such place or is an employer or an employee in the establishment or institution in such place. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts