law: Contact Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
  11. Appointment of licensing officers
  The appropriate government may, by an order notified in the
  
  Official Gazette-
  (a) appoint such person, being Gazetted
  
  Officers of government, as it thinks fit to be licensing officers for the
  
  purposes of this chapter; and
  (b) define the limits, within which a
  
  licensing officer shall exercise the powers conferred on licensing officers by
  
  or under this Act.