8. 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 Act are employed, for the purpose of examining any register or record of wages, or of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with ; or |
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| (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 ; |
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| (c) to take copies of the whole or any part of any such register or record ; or |
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| (d) 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 |
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| (e) to direct in writing any employer to whom this Act 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 clasp or description of such workers and containing such particulars as he may require for the purposes of this Act; | | |
| | (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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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts