34. (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification, appoint Inspector-cum-
Facilitators for the purposes of this Code who shall exercise the powers conferred on them
under this Code throughout the State or such geographical limits assigned in relation to one
or more establishments situated in such State or geographical limits or in one or more
establishments, irrespective of geographical limits, assigned to him by the appropriate
Government, as the case may be.
(2) The Inspector-cum-Facilitators appointed under sub-section (1) shall, apart from
other duties to be discharged by them under this Code, conduct such inspections including
web based inspection in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government.
Maintenance
of registers
and records
and filing of
returns.
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cum-
Facilitators.
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(3) The appropriate Government may, by notification, appoint any person or persons
possessing the prescribed qualifications and experience to be Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator
for the purposes of such establishments or class of establishments and for such local limits
of jurisdiction as may be specified in the notification and the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator
may within the local limits of his jurisdiction exercise the powers of the Inspector-cum-
Facilitator:
Provided that a Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may be appointed for the purposes of
a State or more than one States or for the purposes of the whole of the Country.
(4) The appropriate Government may, by notification, appoint for the purposes of
such establishments, as many Additional Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitators, Joint Chief
Inspector-cum-Facilitators and Deputy Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitators or any other officer
of any designation as it thinks appropriate, to exercise such powers of the Chief Inspector-
cum-Facilitator within his jurisdiction as may be specified in the notification.
(5) Every Additional Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, Joint Chief Inspector-cum-
Facilitator, Deputy Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and every other officer appointed under
sub-section (4) shall, in addition to the powers of a Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator specified
in the notification by which the officer is appointed, exercise the powers of an Inspector-
cum-Facilitator within such local limits as may be specified in the notification.
(6) No person shall be appointed under sub-section (1), sub-section (3), sub-section (4)
or sub-section (7), or having been so appointed, shall continue to hold office, who is, or who
becomes, directly or indirectly interested in a workplace or work activity or in any process or
business carried on in any workplace or in any plant or machinery connected therewith.
(7) The appropriate Government may also, by notification, appoint such public officers
as it thinks fit to be additional Inspector-cum-Facilitators for exercising the powers and
discharging the duties of Inspector-cum-Facilitator for all or any of the purposes of this
Code within such local limits as may be specified in such notification.
(8) Without prejudice to the other functions of the Inspector-cum-Facilitator under
this Code, an Inspector-cum-Facilitator may in respect of any establishment or class of
establishments in local area or areas of his jurisdiction where the Chief Inspector-cum-
Facilitator with the approval of the appropriate Government and subject to such restrictions
or conditions as he may think fit to impose, by order in writing authorise the Inspector-cum-
Facilitator to exercise such of the powers of the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator as may be
specified in such order:
Provided that the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, with the approval of the appropriate
Government, may by order in writing, prohibit the exercise, by any Inspector-cum-Facilitator
or any class of Inspector-cum-Facilitators specified in such order, of any such power by
such Inspector-cum-Facilitator or class of Inspector-cum-Facilitators.
(9) Every Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, Additional Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator,
Joint Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, Deputy Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, Inspector-
cum-Facilitator and every other officer appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a
public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, and shall be
officially subordinate to such authority as the appropriate Government may specify in this
behalf.