Retirement Age Act · 2023 Revised Edition
8. Powers of investigating officers
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
An investigating officer may enter without previous notice at any reasonable time any place of employment and make such enquiry into the conditions of employment of any employee as he may think fit.
investigating officer
“investigating officer” means any person appointed as an investigating officer under section 3;
In the course of an investigation under section 8(1), an investigating officer may —
put questions concerning the dismissal of an employee
(including the particulars of reasons for the dismissal) to the employee, his employer or to any person who may be in charge of the employee, or to any other employee and the employee, employer, person in charge of the employee, or other employee shall be bound to answer those questions truthfully to the best of his knowledge and ability;
require the employer to produce before him any other employee employed by the employer together with any contract of service or other document concerning the employment;
make copies of any document required to be produced under paragraph (b); and
take or remove for purposes of investigations any document.
Any person who hinders or obstructs an investigating officer in the exercise of the power under this section or makes to an investigating officer exercising the power under this section a statement either orally or in writing which is false in any material particular is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.
Terms defined in s 2
contract of service
Defined · s 2“contract of service” means any agreement, whether in writing or oral, express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another as an employee and that other agrees to serve his employer as an employee;
employee
Defined · s 2“employee” means a person who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer;
employer
Defined · s 2“employer” means any person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes — (a) the Government; (b) any statutory authority; (c) any duly authorised agent or manager of any employer; and (d) any person who owns or is carrying on, or for the time being responsible for the management or control of a profession, business, trade or work in which any employee is engaged;
investigating officer
Defined · s 2“investigating officer” means any person appointed as an investigating officer under section 3;