9Powers of inspectors

9 Powers of inspectors

9 Powers of inspectors

(1) Every inspector shall have power at any reasonable times—

(a) to enter, inspect and examine the premises of any employer or any premises in which the inspector has reasonable cause to believe that any person is employed,

(b) to require an employer to produce, at such time and place as the inspector may specify, the long service leave record required to be kept under this Act,

(c) to make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act have been complied with,

(d) to exercise all other powers that may be necessary to ensure the carrying out of the provisions of this Act.

(2) No inspector shall have any authority under this Act to enter those portions of a building which are used exclusively for the purposes of a private dwelling.

(3) Where a worker claims that an employer has not paid the full amount of any payment which has become due to the worker under this Act, an inspector may, by notice in writing served personally or by post, require the employer to deliver or to send by post to the inspector, within such time and to such place as are specified in the notice—

(a) a copy of such specified part of the long service leave record required to be kept under this Act, and

(b) such other information of a specified kind relating to that payment,

as the inspector considers necessary in order to investigate the claim.

(4) A public servant authorised in that behalf by the Under Secretary of the Department of Industrial Relations may exercise the power conferred on an inspector by subsection (3).

s 9: Am 1983 No 100, Sch 1 (2).