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7. Duty to produce the register

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

Every employer shall, when required by the

Commissioner-General, produce the register for inspection or furnish a true copy thereof or permit a copy of such register to be taken.

(2)

Where an employer of any worker in any industry or service -

(a)

has failed to maintain and keep the register required to be kept under subsection (1) of section 5; or

(b)

fails to produce for inspection when required to do so under section 6, the Commissioner-General shall assess the wage or the short payment thereof, as the case may be, payable to such worker under this Act on the basis of all the evidence both oral and documentary, available to him and the provisions of section 8 shall apply where default is made in the payment of any such wage or part thereof.

Read on from s 8