Safety in Industry Act, 1980

Certain medical practitioners enabled to issue certificates of fitness under section 80 of Principal Act.

51.—Subsection (1) of section 80 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of “, or by a registered medical practitioner approved for the purposes of this section by the Minister,” after “the certifying doctor”, and the said subsection (1), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

TABLE

Subject to the provisions of this section, a young person who is taken into any employment in a factory shall not remain in that employment after the expiration of ten working days (or such longer period as may be prescribed) unless he has been examined by the certifying doctor, or by a registered medical practitioner approved for the purposes of this section by the Minister, and certified by him to be fit for that employment.