Appointment of Inspectors

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons as it deems fit to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act, and define the local limits within which they shall exercise their powers under this Act. (2) Subject to any rules made in this behalf, within the local limits for which he/she is appointed, an inspector may, (a) if he has reasons to believe that any worker is employed in an establishment, premises or place to enter, at all reasonable hours, with such assistants (if any), being persons in the service of the Government or any local or other public authority as he thinks fit, such premises, establishment or place for the purpose of, (i) satisfying himself whether the provisions of this Act in relation to the registration of workers, conditions of service, payment of wages or other facilities to be provided to such workers are being complied with; (ii) examine any register or record or notices required to be kept or exhibited by the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under, and requiring the production thereof for inspection; (iii) examine any person found in any such premises, establishment or place for the purposes of determining whether such person is worker; (iv) seize or take copies of such register, record of wages or notices or particulars of workers or portions thereof as he may considered relevant in respect of an offence under this Act which he has reason to believe has been committed by principal Employer, Employer, Contractor or Owner of establishments; (v) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed: Provided that no one shall be required under this section to answer any question or give any statement tending to incriminate himself, for the purpose of investigation of offences under this Act, shall have same powers as an Officer-in-Charge of a police Station under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for investigation of cognizable offence except that he shall not have the power to arrest.