Section 5

enter any premises or place where the inspector has reasonable cause to believe that a person is employed therein;

examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person with respect to any matter under this Act or which the inspector may reasonably require information about, any person whom the inspector has reasonable cause to believe to be or to have been an employee or an employer, and require every such person to be examined and for the purposes of the examination may summon any such person to attend at the place and time specified in the summons;

put questions concerning employees or their employment to their employer or to any person who may be in charge of them, or to any of the employees themselves, or to any other person whom the inspector may consider it desirable to question, and the employer or employee or person is legally bound to answer the questions truthfully to the best of that person’s ability;

require any employer to produce before the inspector all or any of the employees employed by the employer together with any contract of service, book of account of wages, register and other document concerning the employees or their employment and to answer such questions relating thereto as the inspector may think proper to ask;

require any employer to produce for inspection by the inspector the audited statements of accounts of the employer’s undertaking and other records relating to the accounts and to answer such questions relating thereto as the inspector may think proper to ask; and

require —

any document or record containing information concerning employees or their employment to be furnished by their employers, by any person who may be in charge of the employees, by the employees themselves or by any other person from whom the inspector may consider it desirable to require such document or record to be furnished; and

the employers, employees or person referred to in sub‑paragraph (i) to answer such questions as the inspector may think proper to ask relating to such document or record.

any information within the knowledge of that person; or

any document or record in the possession, custody or control of that person,which the inspector considers to be relevant to the investigation of that offence.

the copying thereof cannot reasonably be performed unless possession is taken;

the book, register, document or record may be tampered with unless possession is taken; or

the book, register, document or record may be required as evidence in any proceedings for an offence under this Act or in any proceedings for the recovery of any moneys due to the Fund.

wilfully delays an inspector or any of the officers referred to in subsection (2) in the exercise of any power under this section;

fails to comply with the requisition of an inspector or any such officer under this section or to produce any record, certificate, notice or document which the person is required by or under this section to produce;

wilfully withholds any information as to who are the employees of any employer, or as to the employment or employer of any employee, which that person is required by this section to furnish to an inspector or such officer; or

conceals or prevents or attempts to conceal or prevent a person from appearing before or being examined by an inspector or such officer,that person is deemed to obstruct an inspector or that officer in the execution of his or her duties under this Act.