38. Individual Control Book .- (1) No employer shall allow operation of any motor transport unless the worker travelling with the vehicle is provided with and maintains individual control book in Form XII. The book shall be bound with the forms in duplicate and each form shall be numbered consecutively: Provided that if the Chief Inspector is of opinion that any individual control book; or similar record maintained as a part of the routine of an undertaking gives the particulars required under this rule, he may by order in writing direct that such individual control book or record be maintained in place of and treated as the individual control book required under this rule.
(2) Every motor transport worker travelling with the vehicle shall make entries daily in the individual control book and forward or hand over to his employer the original copy of the form not later than the first working day after completion of the week to which the form related.
(3) Every employer shall maintain the original copies of the individual control book mentioned in sub-rule (2) in separate files for each motor transport workers for a period of three years and shall produce it on demand by any Inspector.
(4) Every motor transport worker travelling with the vehicle shall carry and retain with himself the individual control book for at least six months after the last entry and produce for Inspection on demand by an Inspector.
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