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