{"act":{"id":"bihar-industrial-establishments-national-festival-holidays-casual-leave","short_title":"The Bihar Industrial Establishments (National and Festival Holidays and Casual Leave) Act, 1976","long_title":null,"act_number":"17","act_year":1977,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Bihar","unit":"section","section_count":20,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/141d969d-fc71-4791-912d-6804c2652784.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bihar-industrial-establishments-national-festival-holidays-casual-leave/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"8","heading":"Powers of Inspectors","text":"Subject to rules made by the Government in this behalf, Inspector may, within the areas for which he is appointed: - (a) enter at all reasonable times any place which is an industrial establishment, or which he has reasons to believe to be such an establishment; (b) search the premises and examine any prescribed registers, records and notices maintained in pursuance of this Act or the rules made thereunder; (c) take evidence of such persons on the spot or otherwise, which he may consider necessary to examine for carrying out the purposes of the Act: Provided that no person shall be compelled to answer any question or to give any evidence tending to implicate himself of an offence, and. (d) exercise such other powers which may be prescribed for carrying out the purposes of this Act.","html":"<p>Subject to rules made by the Government in this behalf, Inspector may, within the areas for which he is appointed: - (a) enter at all reasonable times any place which is an industrial establishment, or which he has reasons to believe to be such an establishment; (b) search the premises and examine any prescribed registers, records and notices maintained in pursuance of this Act or the rules made thereunder; (c) take evidence of such persons on the spot or otherwise, which he may consider necessary to examine for carrying out the purposes of the Act: Provided that no person shall be compelled to answer any question or to give any evidence tending to implicate himself of an offence, and. (d) exercise such other powers which may be prescribed for carrying out the purposes of this Act.</p>","words":136,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bihar-industrial-establishments-national-festival-holidays-casual-leave/section/8/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/141d969d-fc71-4791-912d-6804c2652784.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/fb9598b0-e74e-44f6-b145-be2ba0ef6134/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}