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Penalties.-(1) If any employer contravenes the provisions of section 3, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees. (2) If any person being rcqmred so to do, omits or refuses to produce to an Inspector any register or other document or to give any information, he shall be punishable with fine which may extent to one thousand rupees. '(3) If any employer or other person obstructs any Inspector m the discharge "of his duties under this Act-l he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees . . (4) If any employer refuses or wilfully neglects to afford an Inspector reasonable facilities for making an entry, inspection,· examination or investi- gation under this Act, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand r,upees. (5) If any employer, bemg required by or under this Act so to do, refuses to g1ve any evidence or prevents his agent, servant or any other person m charge of the establishment, factory, plantation, motor transport under- takmg, or other unde~taking, as the case may be, or any worker, from giving evidence, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. (6) If any person makes default m complying with the provisiOns of any rule or order made under this Act, he shall if no other penalty IS pro- •· v1ded for such contravention by this Act, be punishable with line which may extend to five hundred rupees t ' . '