4. Chief inspector
and inspectors.- (1) The State Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint for the State
a duly qualified person to be the chief inspector or plantations
and so many duly qualified persons to be inspectors or plantations
subordinate to the chief inspector as it thinks fit.
(1A) The State Government may also, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint such officers of the State Government
or of any local authority under its control, as it thinks
fit, to be additional inspectors of plantations for all or
any of the purposes of this Act.
(2) Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf by
the State Government, the chief inspector may declare the
local area or areas within which, or the plantations with
respect to which, inspectors shall exercise their powers under
this Act, and may himself exercise the powers of an inspector
within such limits as may be assigned to him by the State
Government.
(3) The chief inspector and all inspectors shall be deemed
to be public servants within the meaning of the Indian Penal
Code (Act XLV of 1860). |
