Power to take samples

67.-(1) An Inspector may at any time after informing the occupier of a factory or, if the occupier is not readily available, a foreman or other responsible person in the factory, take for analysis sufficient samples of any material in use or mixed for use in the manufacture of matches or of any substance used or intended to be used in a factory, being a substance in respect of which he suspects a contravention of any rule or regulation made under this Part of this Law or which, in his opinion is likely to cause bodily injury to the persons employed.

(2) The occupier or the foreman or other responsible person aforesaid may, at the time when a sample is taken under this section, and on providing the necessary appliances, require the Inspector to divide the sample into three parts, to work and seal or fasten up each part in such manner as its nature permits, and-

(a) to deliver one part to the occupier, or the foreman or other responsible person aforesaid;

(b) to retain one part for future comparison;

(c) to submit one part to the analyst,

and any analysis under this section shall, if so required, be carried out by the Government Analyst.

(3) A certificate purporting to be a certificate by the Government Analyst as to the result of an analysis of a sample under this section shall, in any proceedings under this Law, be admissible as evidence of the matters, stated therein, but either party may require the person by whom the analysis was made to be called as a witness.

(4) It shall not be lawful for any person, except in so far as is necessary for the purposes of a prosecution for an offence under this Law, to publish or disclose to any person the results of an analysis made under this section, and if any person acts in contravention of this subsection, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding πεντακόσιες λίρες or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such penalties.