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Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act (No. 13 of 1978) - Sect 6

Amendment of section 14 of the principal enactment

6. Section 14 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsections (1) and (1A) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections: -
" (1) The Commissioner or any special officer shall have the power-
(a) to enter and inspect at all reasonable hours by day and night for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Ordinance have been complied with, any premises or place in which women workers are employed in any trade ;
(b) to examine any register of women workers required by any regulation to be maintained by the employer of such workers ;
(c) where any such register is not available for examination at the time of the inspection of such place or premises, to require the production of that register for examination at his office or at such place or premises ; and
(d) to interrogate any person whom he finds in any such place or premises and whom he has reasonable cause to believe is the employer of women workers in the trade carried on therein or is a worker employed therein.
(1A) It shall be the duty of the employer of women workers in any trade carried on in any place or premises to furnish the information required by the Commissioner or a special officer in inquiries made from that employer, for the purposes of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Ordinance have been complied with, during an inspection of such place or premises. ".

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