29. Section 63 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -
| (a) by the substitution, for subsection (1) thereof, of the following new subsection:-
| | " (1) Every registered medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from lead, phosphorous, arsenical or mercurial poisoning, or anthrax, contracted in any factory, shall (unless such a notice has been previously sent) forthwith send addressed to the Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer a notice stating the name and full postal address of the patient and the disease from which, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, the patient is suffering, and the name and address of the factory in which he was last employed, and shall be entitled in respect of every notice sent in pursuance of this section to a fee of ten rupees to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund."; and | | |
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| (b) by the substitution, for subsection (3) thereof, of the following new subsection: -
| | " (3) Written notice of every case of lead, phosphorous, or arsenical or mercurial poisoning, or anthrax, occurring in a factory shall forthwith be sent by the occupier, in such form and accompanied by such particulars as may be prescribed to the District Factory Inspecting Engineer and to an authorized factory doctor; and the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to the notification of accidents shall apply to any such case in like manner as to any such accident as is mentioned in those provisions.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts