7. The competent authority shall have the power-
| (a) to enter and inspect at all reasonable hours of the day or night any place in which workers in any trade are employed, for the purpose of examining any register or of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with; or |
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| (b) if any such register is not available for examination when he is inspecting such place, to require the production of such register on a specified later date for examination at such place or at the office of such authority; or |
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| (c) to take copies of the whole or any part of any such register; or |
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| (d) to interrogate any person whom he finds in such place and whom he has reasonable cause to believe is an employer of workers employed in any trade carried on in such place ; or |
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| (e) to direct, in writing, any employer of workers in any trade to furnish to him on or before a specified date-
| | (i) a return relating to all workers employed by any such employer or any specified class or description of such workers and containing such other particulars as he may require for the purposes of this Act; | | |
| | (ii) such information or explanation as he may require in respect of any particulars stated in any return furnished by any such employer ; or | | |
| | (iii) a true copy of the whole or any part of any register maintained by any such employer. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts