Section 50: Power to take samples.

(1) An inspector may, at any time after informing the occupier or, if the occupier is not readily available, a manager or other responsible person in the factory, take for analysis sufficient samples 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 regulation made under this Part of this Act or which he thinks may prove on analysis to be likely to cause bodily injury to the persons employed.
(2) The occupier or the manager or other person aforesaid may, at the time when the sample is taken under this section, and on providing the necessary appliances, require the inspector to divide the sample into three parts, to mark and seal or fasten up each in such manner as its nature permits and-
(a) to deliver one part to the occupier or the manager or other responsible persons 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 a government chemist in the public service of the Federation or a State.
(3) A certificate purporting to be a certificate by a government chemist as aforesaid as to the result of an analysis of samples under this section shall in any proceedings under this Act be admissible as evidence of the matters stated therein, but any party to the proceedings may require the person by whom the analysis is 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 Act, 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 on conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding N1,000.