Safety in Industry Act, 1980

Fee payable to medical practitioners under section 76 of Principal Act.

52.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the fee payable to medical practitioners under section 76 of the Principal Act (which requires medical practitioners to notify the Minister of industrial diseases) shall be a fee of one pound, and, accordingly, subsection (1) of the said section 76 shall be construed and have effect as if the reference therein to two shillings and sixpence were a reference to one pound.

(2) The Minister may with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service by regulations fix the amount of the fee referred to in subsection (1) of this section, and in case regulations under this subsection are for the time being in force, section 76 (1) of the principal Act, as amended by subsection (1) of this section, shall be construed and have effect as if for the reference therein to one pound there were substituted a reference to the amount specified in the regulations.