law: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 
  
  43.Powers of Inspectors.- 
  (1) Subject to any rules made in this behalf,
  
  an Inspector may, within the local limits for which he is appointed,--
  (a) enter, at all reasonable hours, with such assistants (if any) being persons
  
  in the service of the Government or any local or other public authority as he
  
  thinks fit, any premises or place where building or other construction work is
  
  carried on , for the purpose of examining any register or record or notices
  
  required to be kept or exhibited by or under this Act, and require the
  
  production thereof for inspection;
  (b) examine any person 
  
  whom he finds in any such premises or place and who, he has reasonable cause to 
  
  believe, is a building worker employed therein;
  (c) require any person giving out building or other construction work to any
  
  building worker, to give any information, which is in his power to give with
  
  respect to the names and addresses of the persons to, for and whom the building
  
  or other construction work in given out or received, and with respect to the
  
  payments to be made for the building or other construction work;
  (d) seize or take copies of such register, record of wage or notices or
  
  portions thereof as he may consider relevant in respect of an offence under
  
  this Act which he has reason to believe has been committed by the employer; and
  (e) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.
  (2) For the purposes of this section, the
  
  Director-General or the Chief Inspector, as the case may be, may employ experts
  
  of agencies having such qualifications and experience and on such terms and
  
  conditions as may be prescribed.
  (3) Any person required to produce any document or to give any information
  
  required by an Inspector under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be legally
  
  bound to do so within the meaning of section 175 and section 176 of the Indian
  
  Penal Code (45 of 1860).
  (4) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), shall,
  
  so far as may be, apply to such search or seizure under sub-section (1) as they
  
  apply to any search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued
  
  under section 94 of the said Code.