Part 23 (2/2)

In the exercise of such supervision the local police magistrates shall be empowered with all official authority, especially with the right of inspection of establishments at any time. They shall be bound to observe secrecy (except in exposing illegalities) as to their official knowledge of the business affairs of the establishments submitted to their inspection.

The settlement of relations of competence between these officials and the ordinary police magistrates, shall be subject to the const.i.tutional regulation of the separate States of the Bund.

The officials mentioned shall publish annual reports of their official acts. These annual reports or extracts from the same, shall be laid before the Bundesrath and the Reichstag.

Employers must at any time during the hours of business, especially at night, permit official inspection to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of ---- 105_a_ to 105_h_, 120_a_ to 120_e_, 134 to 139_a_.

Employers shall further be bound to impart to the officials appointed or to the police magistrate, such statistical information as to the relations of their workers, as may be prescribed by the Bundesrath or the Central Provincial Court, with due observance of the terms and forms prescribed.

_Article IV._

Chapter IX. of the Industrial Code shall contain the following clauses:

CHAPTER IX.

STATUTORY PROVISIONS.

-- 142.

Statutory provisions of a borough or wider communal union shall be binding in regard to all those industrial matters with which the law empowers them to deal. After they have been considered by the directors of industry and the workers concerned, the statutory provisions must receive the a.s.sent of the higher court of administration, and shall then be published in some form prescribed by the parish or wider communal union, or in the usual form.

The Central Court shall be empowered to annul statutory provisions which are contrary to law or to the statutory provisions of a wider communal union.

_Article V._

Sub-section 2 of -- 93_a_ (2_b_) shall contain the following clause:

_b._ The supervision by the union of the observation of the provisions laid down in ---- 41_a_, 105_a_ to 105_g_, 120 to 120_e_, 126, 127.

_Article VI._

The penal provisions of Chapter X. of the Industrial Code shall be altered as follows:

1. Section 146, (1) 1, 2, and 3, shall contain the following clauses:

1. Directors of industry, acting in contravention of -- 115;

2. Directors of industry, acting in contravention of ---- 135, 136, 137, or of orders issued on the grounds of ---- 139 to 139_a_;

3. Directors of industry, acting in contravention of ---- 111 (3) and 113 (3);

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