law: Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 
  27. Inspectors 
  (1) The appropriate government may, by notification in the
  
  Official Gazette appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be Inspectors for the
  
  purposes of this Act and may define the limits within which they shall exercise
  
  jurisdiction.
  (2) An Inspector appointed under sub-section (1) may, for the
  
  purpose of ascertaining whether any of the provisions of this Act has been
  
  complied with- 
  (a) require an employer to furnish such
  
  information as he may consider necessary;
  (b) at any reasonable time and with such
  
  assistance, if any, as he thinks fit, enter any establishment or any premises
  
  connected therewith and require anyone found in charge thereof to produce
  
  before him for examination any accounts, books, registers and other documents
  
  relating to the employment of persons or the payment of salary or wages or
  
  bonus in the establishment;
  (c) examine with respect to any matter
  
  relevant to any of the purposes aforesaid, the employer, his agent or servant
  
  or any other person found in charge of the establishment or any premises
  
  connected therewith or any person whom the Inspector has reasonable cause to
  
  believe to be or to have been an employee in the establishment;
  (d) make copies of, or take extracts from, any
  
  book, register or other document maintained in relation to the establishment;
  (e) exercise such other power as may be
  
  prescribed.
  (3) Every Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant
  
  within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
  (4) Any person required to produce any accounts, books, register
  
  or other documents or to give information by an Inspector under sub-section (1)
  
  shall be legally bound to do so.
   6  [(5) Nothing contained in this section shall enable an
  
  Inspector to require a banking company to furnish or disclose any statement or
  
  information or to produce, or give inspection of any of its books of account or
  
  other documents, which a banking company cannot be compelled to furnish,
  
  disclose, produce or give inspection of, under the provisions of section 34A of
  
  the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949).]