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Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations

[1973 Ed.

[Subsidiary] Register of persons employed underground in industrial undertaking.

L.N. 132/69.

Second Schedule, Form 1.

Employees not to work

underground unless examined medically.

L.N. 132/69.

16B. (1) The proprietor of every industrial undertaking to which this Part applies shall maintain or cause to be maintained therein a register in accordance with this regulation.

(2) The register shall be in the prescribed form and shall in respect of every person employed to work underground in the industrial undertaking-

(a) specify his name and residential address;

(b) specify the number of his identity card, if any;

(c) specify his date of birth;

(d) contain a full face photograph of the person;

(e) specify the date on which he first commenced to work

underground in the industrial undertaking; and

(ƒ) specify the date of every medical examination undergone

by him in accordance with regulation 16C(3).

16C. (1) Subject to regulations 16D and 16E, no person shall be permitted to commence to work underground in an industrial undertaking to which this Part applies unless within the month preceding the date on which the person first commences so to work-

(a) the proprietor has engaged a medical practitioner to examine the person medically in accordance with para- graph (3); and

(b) the senior industrial health officer has issued a certificate under paragraph (4) that the person is fit to work under- ground in such an industrial undertaking.

(2) No person under the age of twenty-one years-

(a) who is employed to work underground in an industrial

undertaking to which this Part applies, and

(b) who has been so employed for more than twelve months, shall be permitted to continue in such employment at any time unless within the preceding period of twelve months—

(i) the proprietor has engaged a medical practitioner to examine the person medically in accordance with paragraph (3); and

(ii) the senior industrial health officer has issued a certificate under paragraph (4) that the person is fit to work under- ground in such an industrial undertaking:

Provided that a person under the age of twenty-one years who is employed at the date of commencement of this regulation to work underground in an industrial undertaking to which this Part applies may continue to be so employed for a period not exceeding three months from such date, notwithstanding that he has not been examined medically as required under sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph.