BEEDI AND CIGAR WORKERS (CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT,1966)
CONTAINS
Appeals . - Any person
aggrieved by the decision of the competent authority refusing to
grant or renew a licence or cancelling of suspending a licence may,
within such time and on payment of such fees, not exceeding twenty
rupees, as may be prescribed, appeal to such authority as the State
Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify
in this behalf and such authority may by order confirm, modify or
reverse any order refusing to grant or renew a licence or cancelling
or suspending a licence.
- The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,
appoint such of its officers or such officers of any local authority
as it thinks fit to be inspectors for the purposes of this Act
and may assign to them such local limits as it may think fit.
- The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,
appoint any person to be a Chief Inspector who shall exercise
the powers of an inspector throughout the State.
- Every Chief Inspector and Inspector shall be deemed to be a
public servant within the meaning of Sec.21 of the Indian Penal
Code (45 of 1860).
7. Power of Inspectors. -
(1)Subject to any rules made by the State
Government in this behalf, an Inspector may, within the local limits
for which he is appointed-
(a)Make such examination and hold such
inquiry as may be necessary for ascertaining whether the provisions
of this Act have been or are being complied with in any place or
premises:
Provided that no person shall be compelled under this section to
answer any question or to give any evidence which may tend to incriminate
himself,
(b)Require the production of any prescribed
register and any other document relating to the manufacture of beedi
or cigar or both;
(c)Enter, with such assistants as he
thinks fit, at all times any place or premises including the residences
of employees if he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any
manufacturing process is being carried on or is, ordinarily, carried
on in any such place or premises;(d)Exercise such other powers as
may be prescribed.
(2)If an Inspector has reasonable grounds
for suspecting that any manufacturing process is being carried on
in any establishment in contravention of the provisions of this
Act, he may, after giving due notice to the employer or in the absence
of the employer, to the occupier, enter such establishment with
such assistants, if any, as he may think fit.
(3) Every employer or occupier shall accord
to the Chief Inspector or the Inspector, as the case may be, all
reasonable facilities in the discharge of his duties under this
Act.
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