45. Section 101 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -
| (a) by the substitution, for subsection (1) thereof, of the following new subsection: -
| | " (1) The Commissioner, the Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer, the Deputy Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer, a Specialist Factory Inspecting Engineer, a Specialist Inspecting Medical Officer, a District Factory Inspecting Engineer, a Factory Inspecting Engineer, an Inspecting Medical Officer, and any qualified engineer or medical . practitioner who is in the service of the Government and is authorized in this behalf by the Commissioner shall, for the purpose of the execution of this Ordinance, have power to do all or any of the following things, that is to say: -
| | | (a) to enter, inspect and examine by day or night any premises-
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| (b) to enter any area of any premises or building which is or forms part of the access to any premises referred to in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (a); |
| (c) to take with him one or more police officers if he has reasonable cause to apprehend any serious obstruction in the execution of his duty ; |
| (d) to make any complaint or application to any Magistrate's Court under section 44 or section 44A and to appear in support of such complaint or application ; |
| (e) to require the production of the registers, certificates, notices, and documents kept in pursuance of this Ordinance or any other enactment and to inspect, examine and copy any of them; |
| (f) to require the production of factory plans and drawings and circuit or wiring diagrams pertaining to machinery; |
| (g) to make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of Ordinance and the enactments for the time being in force relating to public health are complied with, so far as respects a factory and any person employed in a factory: |
| (h) to require any person whom he finds in a factory to give such information as it is in his power to give as to who is the occupier of the factory; |
| (i) to examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit. with respect to matters under this Ordinance, every person whom he finds in a factory, or whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be or to have been within the preceding two months employed in a factory or employed in the business of a factory wholly or mainly outside the factory and to require every such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he is so examined; so, however, that no one shall be required under this provision to answer any question or to give any evidence tending to incriminate himself; |
| (j) in the case of a qualified medical practitioner referred to in this section to carry out such medical examination as may be necessary for the purposes of his duties under this Ordinance ; |
| (k) to exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out this Ordinance into effect."; and |
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| (b) by the substitution, for the marginal note to that section, of the following new marginal note: - |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts