law: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 
  
  42.Appointment of Director-General, Chief Inspector and Inspectors.- 
  (1) The Central Government may, by
  
  notification, appoint a Gazetted Officer of the
  
  Government to be the Director-General of Inspection who shall be responsible
  
  for laying down the standards of inspection and shall also exercise the powers
  
  of an Inspector throughout India in relation to all the establishments for
  
  which the Central Government is the appropriate Government.
  (2) The State Government may, by notification, appoint a Gazetted 
  
  Officer of that Government to be the Chief Inspector of Inspection of Building
  
  and Construction who shall be responsible for effectively carrying out the
  
  provisions of this Act in the State and shall also exercise the powers of an
  
  Inspector under this Act throughout the State in relation to establishments for
  
  which the State Government is the appropriate Government.
  (3) The appropriate Government may, by notification, appoint such number of its
  
  officers as it thinks fit to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act and may
  
  assign to them such local limits as it may think fit.
  (4) Every Inspector appointed under this section shall be subject to the
  
  control of the Director-General or the Chief Inspector, as the case may be, and
  
  shall exercise his powers and perform his functions under this Act subject to
  
  general control and supervision of the Director-General or the Chief Inspector.
  (5) The Director-General, the Chief Inspector and every Inspector shall be
  
  deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian
  
  Penal Code.