Malaysia legislation
Section 6
Section 6
Inspection of documents, substances, etc.
(a)
require the employer to produce before him all or any of the employees employed by him together with any contracts of service, books of account of wages, registers and other documents relating to the employees or their employment and to answer such questions in respect of the employees or their employment as he may think fit to ask;
(b)
take or remove for purposes of analysis samples of materials and substances used or handled, subject to the employer or his representative being notified of any samples or substances taken or removed for such purposes;
(c)
copy or make extracts from the contracts of service, books of account of wages, registers and other documents relating to the employees or their employment;
(d)
take possession of the contracts of service, books of account of wages, registers and other documents relating to the employees or their employment where, in his opinion—
(i)
the inspection, copying or the making of extracts from the contracts of service, books of account of wages, registers or other documents cannot reasonably be undertaken without taking possession of them;
(ii)
the contracts of service, books of account of wages, registers or other documents may be interfered with or destroyed unless he takes possession of them; or
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(iii)
the contracts of service, books of account of wages, registers or other documents may be needed as evidence in any legal proceedings under this
Ordinance.
(2)
Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of subsection (1), no employee shall be required to leave or to cease from performing any work on which he is engaged if his absence or cessation from such work would endanger life or property or seriously disrupt any operation being carried on by his employer.
Power of summons and institution of proceedings