BUSINESS LAW: The Inspecting Staff

The Inspecting Staff

10. Inspectors. - (1) The Provincial Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as it may assign to them respectively.

(2) The Provincial Government may, by notification as aforesaid, appoint any person to be a Chief Inspector, who shall, in addition to the powers conferred on a Chief Inspector under this Act, exercise the powers of an Inspector throughout the Province.

(3) No person shall be appointed to be an Inspector under sub-section (1) or a Chief Inspector under sub-section (2) or having been so appointed, shall continue to hold office, who is or becomes directly or indirectly interested in a factory or in any process or business carried on therein or in any patent or machinery connected therewith.

(4) Every District Magistrate shall be an Inspector for his district.

(5) The Provincial Government may also, by notification as aforesaid, appoint such public officers as it thinks fit to be additional Inspectors for all or any of the purposes of the Act, within such local limits as it may assign to them respectively.

(6) To any area where there are more Inspectors than one, the Provincial Government may by notification as aforesaid declare the powers which such Inspectors shall respectively exercise, and the Inspectors to whom the prescribed notices are to be sent.

(7) Every Chief Inspector and Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860) and shall be officially subordinate to such authority as the Provincial Government may specify in this behalf.

11. Powers of Inspector. - Subject to any rules made by the Provincial Government in this behalf, an Inspector may, within the local limits for which he is appointed, -

(a) enter with such assistants (if any), being persons in the service of the state or of any municipal or other public authority, as he thinks fit, any place which is or which he has reason to believe to be, used as a factory or capable of being declared to be a factory under the provisions of section 5;

(b) make such examination of the premises and plant and of any prescribed registers, and take on the spot or otherwise such evidence of persons as be may deem necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act; and

(c) exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act:

Provided that no one shall be required under this section to answer any question or give any evidence tending to criminate himself.

12. Certifying surgeons.-

(1) The Provincial Government may appoint such registered medical practitioners as it thinks fit to be certifying surgeons for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as it may assign to them respectively.

(2) A certifying surgeon may authorise any registered medical practitioner to exercise any of his powers under this Act:

Provided that a certificate of fitness for employment granted by such authorised practitioner shall be valid for a period of three months only, unless it is confirmed by the certifying surgeon himself after examination of the person concerned.

Explanation. - In this section a "registered medical practitioner" means any person registered under any Act of the Central Legislature or any Provincial Legislature providing for the maintenance of a register of medical practitioners, and includes, in any area where no such register is maintained, any person declared by the Provincial Government by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a registered medical practitioner for the purposes of this section.