Chapter VI HEALTH AND SAFETY

(i) The premises of every establishment shall be kept clean and free from a fluvial arising from any drain or opivy or other nuisance and shall be cleaned at such times and by methods as may be prescribed and these methods may include lime washing, colour, washing, painting, varnishing, disinfection and deodorising. (ii) The premises of every establishment shall be ventilated and sufficiently lighted during all working hours, with such standards and by such methods as maybe prescribed. (iii) If it appears to an Inspector that the premises of any establishment within his jurisdiction are not sufficiently kept clean or lighted or ventilated, he may serve on the employer, an order in writing specifying the measures which in his opinion, should be adopted and resuiring him to be carried out before a specified date. (1) The complaint shall be made by the complainant in person or by an agent personally acquainted with the circumstances. It may be either in writing or verbal. If it be verbal the substance of it shall be taken down in writing by the Magistrate. (2) If the Magistrate, on examining the complainant or his agent, sees reason to believe the complaint to be well founded he shall summon the person complained against, and make an enquiry into the case.

Against any order of the Inspector under this chapter, an appeal shall lie to such authority and within such time as may be prescribed.

If any person, being either the owner or the occupier of an establishment who has incurred or is about to incure any expenses for the purpose of securing that the requirements of section 21 or section 22 are complied with respect to the establishment, alleges that the whole or any part of the expenses ought to be borne by any other person having an interest in the premises, he may apply to the assistant to the Deputy Commissioner having jurisdiction over the area in which the establishment is situated and the court shall make such order concerning the expenses or their appointment as it appears to the court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the terms of any contract between the parties, to be just and equitable, and any order made under this section may direct that any such contract as aforesaid shall cease to have effect in so far it is inconsistent with the terms of the order. Whoever forcibly opposes the seizure of cattle liable to be seized under this Act. and whoever rescues the same after seizure, either from a pound or from any person being near at hand and acting under the powers conferred by this Act., shall on conviction before a Magistrate, be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or with both.

(i) The State Goivernment may, by notification in made under this section may direct that any such the official Gazette, appoint such officer or such persons or class of persons as they think fit to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as they may assign to them respectively. (ii) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint the Labour Commissioner, or Deputy Labour Commissioner Assistant Labour Commissioner of Nagaland as Chief Inspector for the purposes of this Act. Any owner, or keeper, or attendant of cattle, who causes or suffers cattle to stray about, without a keeper or who, through neglect or otherwise, damages or causes or permits to be damaged any land, or any crop or produce of land or any public road, by allowing such cattle to tresspass thereon, shall on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not less than Rs. 25, but not exceeding Rs. 250 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.