PART
XIII REGISTERS,
RETURNS AND NOTICE BOARDS 61. Duty
to keep registers. (1) Every
employer shall prepare and keep one or more registers containing such
information regarding each employee employed by him as may be prescribed
by regulations made under this Act. (2) Every
such register shall be preserved for such period that every particular
recorded therein shall be available for inspection for not less than
six years after the recording thereof. (3) Notwithstanding
subsections (1) and (2), the Director-General, on a written application
by an employer, may permit the employer to keep the information required
under subsection (1) in any other manner as may be approved by the
Director-General subject to such conditions as he may deem fit to impose. 62. Power
to make regulations requiring information as to wages. The Minister
may, by regulations made under this Act, provide that every employer
or any specified class or classes of employers shall make available,
in such form and at such intervals as may be prescribed, to every employee
employed by him or them or to such class or classes of employees as
may be specified such particulars as may be specified relating to the
wages of such employees or any of them. 63. Duty
to submit returns. (1) The
Director-General may, by notification in the Gazatte or by notice in
writing require every employer or such class or classes of employers
as may be specified, and every owner or occupier of land upon which
employee are employed or such class or classes of owners or occupiers
as may be specified, to forward to the Director-General at such times
as he may direct a return or returns, in such form or forms as he may
prescribe, giving such particulars relating to the employees of the
employers, or to the employees employed on the land, as may be prescribed. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, the powers of the Director
General under subsection (1) extends to every employee employed under
a contract of service irrespective of the monthly wages of the employee. 63A. Duty
to give notice and other information. (1) Any
person or employer who proposes: (a) to
operate any agricultural or industrial undertaking or any establishment
where any commerce, trade, profession or business of any description
is carried on; or (b) to
take over or commence business in such undertaking or establishment;
or (c ) to
change the name or the location of such undertaking or establishment, in which
any employee is employed or is likely to be employed shall, within
ninety days of such commencing of operation, taking over or commencing
of business, or changing the name or the location of the undertaking
or establishment, as the case may be, give notice in writing thereof
to the nearest office or the Director of Labour having jurisdiction
for the area in which that undertaking or establishment is located
and furnish such office of the Director of Labour with: (i)
the registered name, address and nature of business of; (ii)
the name of the manager or person in charge of; and (iii)
a statement of the categories and total number of employees employed
in; that
undertaking or establishment. (1A) For
the purposes of this section the expressions ‘commencing of operation'
and ‘commencing of business' each means the date of which the undertaking
or establishment is registered under any written law, or the date of
which the first employee is employed in furtherance of the operation,
commerce, trade or business of such undertaking or establishment, whichever
is earlier. (2) Where
any undertaking or establishment as is referred to in subsection (1)
is already in operation or has commenced business, such notice shall
be given within ninety days of the coming into force of this section. (3) Any
person or employer who fails to give notice as required by this section
or gives such notice containing any false particulars commits an offence. 64. Duty
to display notice boards The owner
of any: (a) estate
of twenty hectares or more; (b) mine; (c ) factory; (d) trade,
business or manufacturing activity carried on in any premises; on or
in which not less than five employees are employed shall, if such
estate, mine, factory or premises is outside the limits of a City,
Municipality, Town Council, Town Board or other local authority,
cause to be erected where practicable in a conspicuous place at or
adjacent to the place where the access road to such estate, mine,
factory or premises joins the main road or a railway or river, as
the case may be, a notice board on which shall be set out in the
National Language the name of such estate, mine, factory, trade,
business or manufacturing activity and the address of the registered
or other office thereof.