The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026
Rule 67. Powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitator under clause (iv) of sub-section (1) of section 35
Official text
An Inspector-cum-Facilitator shall for the purpose of clause (iv) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Code, have power to do all or any of the following things, with respect to plantation namely:–
(a) to photograph any child worker; take samples to inspect, examine, measure; take copies of any relevant document, photograph, sketch or test, as the case may be, any house, building or room, or anything provided for the purpose of securing the health or welfare of the workers employed in a plantation and inspect or take copies any register or document to maintained under the Code and these rules;
(b) to require an employer to supply or send any return or information relating to the provisions of the Code or rules made thereunder;
(c) to satisfy himself at each inspection that,–
(i) the provisions of the Code and the rules regarding the health and welfare of workers employed in the plantation are observed;
(ii) the adolescents employed in the plantation have been granted certificates of fitness and that no adolescent is employed who is unfit;
(iii) the prescribed registers and records are properly maintained under Code on Wages, 2019 and the Occupational Safety, Health and working Conditions Code,2020 ;
(iv) the periods of rest and holidays provided by the Code are granted and that the limits of hours of work laid down therein are not exceeded;
(v) the notice of period of work required is duly affixed;
(vi) leave with wages and sickness and maternity benefits are granted in accordance with the provisions of the Code and other labour laws in force;
(vii) to note how far the defects pointed out in the previous inspections have been removed and how far orders previously issued have been complied with; and
(viii) to point out all such defects or irregularities as he may have observed and to give orders for their removal and to record and furnish to the employer a summary of the defects or irregularities and of his orders.