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Appointment of Inspectors.—The appropriate Government may appoint Inspectors for the purposes of securing compliance with the provisions of this Act and any Inspector so appointed shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). 1[17A. District Magistrate to implement the provisions.—The appropriate Government may confer such powers and impose such duties on a District Magistrate as may be necessary, to ensure that the provisions of this Act are properly carried out and the District Magistrate may specify the officer, subordinate to him, who shall exercise all or any of the powers, and perform all or any of the duties, so conferred or imposed and the local limits within which such powers or duties shall be carried out by the officer as may be prescribed. STATE AMENDMENT Gujarat Amendment of section 17A of 61 of 1986.— In the principal Act, in section 17A, - (i) for the words “District Magistrate”, the words “District Magistrate, Municipal Commissioner, Director of Labour or, as the case may be, the Regional Commissioner of Municipalities” shall be substituted; (ii) in the marginal note, for the word “District Magistrate”, the words “District Magistrate, Municipal Commissioner, Director of Labour or Regional Commissioner of Municipalities” shall be substituted. [Vide Gujarat Act 19 of 2021, s. 4]