Chapter VIII APPOINTMENT, POWERS AND DUTIES OF INSPECTORS

The State Government may, by notification, appoint such officers of the State Government or of any local authority as they think fit to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act, within such local limits as the State Government may assign to them.

Any inspector may at all reasonable hours enter into any premises, which is, or which he has reason to believe is, an establishment, with such assistants and make such examination of the premises and of the prescribed registers, records or notices as may be prescribed.

Every Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.