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| (1) The Commissioner of Labour may direct an employer to furnish to him before a specified date-
| | (a) a return relating to all his employees or any specified class or description of such employees and containing such particulars as the Commissioner may require for the purposes of this Act; or | | |
| | (b) such information or explanation as the Commissioner may require in respect of any particulars stated in any return furnished by such employer; or | | |
| | (c) a true copy of the whole or any part of any register or record maintained or deemed to be maintained under this Act by such employer. | | |
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| (2) A direction under subsection (1) may be given by notice published in the Gazette and in two or more newspapers circulating in Ceylon. |
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| (3) Any employer furnishing any return or information under subsection (1) may transmit at the same time a written request that such return or information should be treated as confidential and, where such a request is made, the return or information to which the request relates shall not be disclosed without the consent previously obtained of the employer who made the request. |
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| (4) No information (whether contained in a return or not) furnished under subsection (1) shall be so arranged, in any report made or publication issued by or with the authority of the Commissioner of Labour, as to facilitate the identification of the information as being information relating to any individual employer or person. |
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| (5) Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall be deemed to require or permit any person to disclose the information or to produce any document in any case where the disclosure or production by him of the information or document is prohibited by or under the provisions of any other written law. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts