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Special Allowances Of Workers Law (No. 17 of 1978) - Sect 16

Powers of competent authority

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(1) The employer of a worker in any trade shall maintain and keep in the premises in which that trade is carried on a register, in respect of the workers employed in that trade, showing-
(a) the name of each worker employed;
(b) the class of work performed by each such worker; and
(c) the amount paid to each such worker in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
(2) Every person who, as an employer, maintains or has maintained under subsection (1) any record shall preserve such record for a period of four years commencing on the date on which the record was required to be maintained under this Law and shall, when required to do so by the Commissioner, produce such record for inspection and furnish a true copy of such record or permit such copy to be made.
Powers of competent authority.
16. The competent authority shall have the power-
(a) to enter and inspect at all reasonable hours of the day or night any place in which workers referred to in this Law are employed, for the purpose of examining any register or record of wages, or of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Law are being complied with ; or
(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 his office ; or
(c) to take copies of the whole or any part of any such register or record; or
(d) to interrogate any person whom he finds in such place and whom he has reasonable cause to believe is an employer or a worker engaged or employed in any trade carried on in such place ; or
(e) to direct in writing any employer to whom this Law applies to furnish to him on or before a specified date-
(i) a return relating to all workers employed by any such employer or any specified class or description of such workers and containing such particulars as he may require for the purposes of this Law ;
(ii) such information or explanation as he may require in respect of any particulars stated in any return furnished by any such employer ; or
(iii) a true copy of the whole or any part of any register or record maintained by any such employer.


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