9. Section 14 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -
| (A) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substtution therefor of the following subsection : -
| | " (1) The Commissioner or any special officer shall have the power-
| | | (a) to enter and inspect at all reasonable hours by day or night, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Ordinance are being complied with, any factory, estate, mine or prescribed establishment where women workers are employed ; |
| (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 factory, estate, mine or prescribed establishment, to require the production of that register for examination at his office or at such factory, estate, mine or prescribed establishment ; and |
| (d) to interrogate any person whom he finds in such factory, estate, mine or prescribed establishment and whom he has reasonable cause to believe is the employer of the women workers employed therein or is a worker employed therein. " ; and |
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| (B) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following subsection :--
| | " (1A) It shall be the duty of the employer of women workers in any factory, estate, mine or prescribed establishment to furnish the information required by the Commissioner or a special officer in inquiries made from that employer, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Ordinance are being complied with, during an inspection of such factory, estate, mine or prescribed establishment.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts