To:
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FORM 3.
[reg. 16C(4)]
FACTORIES AND Industrial Undertakings REGULATIONS.
CERTIFICATE AS TO FITNESS OF EMPLOYEE/PROPOSED
EMPLOYER*.
(proprietor of dualmarrtak" Ürmation:toskolur)
1 bereby certify that Mr.
Caddress or industrial waterzakina)
རཱཎ i༥ ནཿལཿ མངས
of
(munkalapotband, määrejó
(a) muzowy)
has been axamined medically in accordance with regulation 160(3) of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations and is fit/unfitTM to work underground in an industrial undertaking to which Part HA of the regulations applies.
Note:
Date of issue (
Signed:
Exentor talpurtared meath old!
• Delete whichever in dangalienetsite.".
Made by the Commissioner of Labour on August 1969.
A
the 20th day of
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5. The Commissioner of Labour or an authorized officer may permit the employment of a person who is twenty-one or older for up to six months without medical examination if the Commissioner or the authorized officer considers that the work on which he is to be employed in unlikely to take more than six months to complete.
6. If the Commissioner of Labour or an authorized officer is of the opinion that a registered trade union represents an underground worker who is under twenty-one, the Labour Department must supply to the officers of the trade union certain information regarding the employment of the worker and must produce for inspection the certificate of fitness issued in respect of the worker.
7. Proprietors are required to keep registers of persons working underground. They are responsible for compliance with the new provis sions and are liable to prosecution if persons are employed in breach of the regulations.
8. The principal regulations are also amended to prohibit the em- ployment of women and children in underground work in tunnelling operations and to make other minor amendments relating to the employ- ment of women and children and the keeping of registers in respect of such personS,
9. Al present a proprietor is simply required to provide a suitable room for dising and rests for women and young persons employed on shift work. A new requirement will now be added whereby such rooms will have to be specifically approved by the Commissioner. The require ment that women and young persons may only be employed on shift work if the scheme provides for rotating shifts is revoked. Rest days for women and young persons will now be Exed by entry in the register which a proprietor is required to keep. A proprietor must give the Commissioner forty-eight hours notice before changing rest days and not more than one change per month may be made without his permission.
10. The amending regulations will come into operation on the 1st day of October 1969,
Commissioner of Labour.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
The main purpose of these regulations is to provide for medical examinations of persons employed to work underground in mines, quarries and industrial undertakings involving tunnelling operations.
2. No person may be so employed unless he is first examined medically and certified as fit for such work. However, a person of or over the age of twenty-one who is already employed underground in an undertaking when these regulations come into force will not have lo undergo ao examination in respect of such employment.
3. Persons under twenty-one who are employed on underground work are also required to be re-examined at yearly intervals. Persons under twenty-one who are already employed underground at the date of commencement of these regulations, however, will be exempted from this requirement for a period of three months.
4. If at any time a person of or over the age of twenty-one has been examined within the preceding twelve months and certified as fit, hẹ may commence new employment without having to undergo & further medical examination.