# The Assam Shops and Establishment Act, 2022, Section 24

- Act: The Assam Shops and Establishment Act, 2022 (Act 3 of 2025)
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(1). The State Government may prescribe a scheme for random inspection of shops and establishments which may provide for generation of a web based Inspection Schedule. (2) Every Chief Facilitator and Facilitator appointed under section 23 shall be deemed to be public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and shall be officially subordinate to such authority as the Government may specify in this behalf. Central Act No.45 of 1860 (3) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the Facilitator may, within the local limits for which he is appointed- (i) advice the employers and workers and provide them such information as may be considered necessary for complying with the provisions of this Act effectively; (ii) inspect the shops or establishments in accordance with the scheme for inspection referred to in sub-section (1) above, and may- (a) enter at all reasonable time and with such assistants, if any, being persons in the service of the Government or of any local authority as he thinks fit, any place which is or which he has reason to believe is a shop or establishment; (b) make such examination of the premises and of any prescribed registers, records and notices, and take on the spot or otherwise evidence of any persons as he may deem necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act; (c) examine any person who is found in any premises of the shop or establishment and whom, the Facilitator has reasonable cause to believe, is a worker of the shop or establishment; (d) require any person to give any information, which is in his possession with respect to the names and addresses of the persons; (e) search, seize or take copies of such register, record of wages or notices or portions thereof as he may consider relevant in respect of an offence under this Act and which he has reason to believe has been committed by the employer; r (f) bring to the notice of the Government defects found during inspection; and (g) exercise such other powers, as may be prescribed: Provided that, no person shall be compelled under this section to answer any question or give any evidence founding to indiscriminate himself. (4) Any person required to produce any document or to give any information required by Chief Facilitator or the Facilitator appointed under section 23 shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the meaning of sections 175 and 176 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Central Act No.45 of 1860 (5) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 shall, so far as may be, apply to the search or seizure under sub-clause (e) of clause (ii) of sub-section (2) as they apply to the search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued under section 94 of the said Code. en code Central Act No.2 of 1974 CHAPTER VII RECORDS AND RETURNS Maintenance of Registers and Returns

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