44E. Subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed, the Commissioner or any labour officer or any other prescribed officer shall have the power-
| (a) to enter and inspect at all reasonable hours of the day or night any place in which any workmen are employed, for the purpose of examining any register or record maintained or deemed to be maintained under this Act or such other registers or records as are required under this Act to be available for inspection ; |
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| (b) where at the time of such inspection any such register or record is not available for examination, to require the production of such register or record on such date and at such place as he may specify ; |
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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) to interrogate any person whom he finds at the place where the workmen are employed and whom he has reasonable cause to believe is an employer or a workman engaged or employed in the trade, business, occupation or undertaking carried on in such place. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts