42. Appointment of Director-General,
Chief Inspector and Inspectors.- (1)
The Central Government may, by notification,
appoint a Gazetted Officer of the Government
to be the Director-General of Inspection who
shall be responsible for laying down the standards
of inspection and shall also exercise the powers
of an Inspector throughout India in relation
to all the establishments for which the Central
Government is the appropriate Government.
(2) The State Government may,
by notification, appoint a Gazetted Officer
of that Government to be the Chief Inspector
of Inspection of Building and Construction who
shall be responsible for effectively carrying
out the provisions of this Act in the State
and shall be exercise the powers of an Inspector
under this Act throughout the State in relation
to establishments for which the State Government
is the appropriate Government.
(3) The appropriate Government
may, by notification, appoint such number of
its officers as it thinks fit to be Inspectors
for the purposes of this Act and may assign
to them such local limits as it may think fit.
(4) Every Inspector appointed
under this section shall be subject to the control
of tile Director-General or the Chief Inspector,
as the case may be, and shall exercise his powers
and perform his functions under this Act subject
to general control and supervision of the Director-General
or the Chief Inspector.
(5) The Director-General the
Chief Inspector and every Inspector shall be
deemed to be public servants with in the meaning
of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of
1860).
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