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National Apprenticeship Act (No. 49 of 1971) - Sect 29

Powers of Inspectors

29.
(1) Subject to any rules made in that behalf, an Inspector shall have power to do all or any of the following acts or things, that is to say:-
(a) to enter, inspect and examine any establishment or part thereof at all reasonable times, by day and night;
(b) to examine any apprentice employed therein, or to require the production of any register, record or other documents maintained in pursuance of this Act, and to take on the spot or otherwise any statement of any person which he may consider necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act;
(c) to make such examination and inquiry as he thinks fit in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder are being observed in the establishment;
(d) to exercise such other powers as may be prescribed;
(e) to examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to any matter which is being investigated by him, every person whom he finds on the premises of the establishment entered by him by virtue of the aforesaid powers or whom he has reasonable ground for believing to be or to have been employed in such establishment or to be in possession, custody or control of anything referred to in this sub-section;
(f) to require any person referred to in paragraph (b) to appear before him at a time and place fixed by him, and then and there question that person concerning any matter which is being investigated by him.
(2) The occupier of any establishment, his agents and servants, shall at all times furnish the means or facilities required by an Inspector as are necessary for the purpose of exercising his powers under sub-section (1).


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