Factories (Amendment) Law (No. 12 of 1976)

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Factories (Amendment) Law (No. 12 of 1976) - Sect 31

Replacement of section 77 of the principal enactment

31. Section 77 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -

77.

	(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a young person who has not attained the age of sixteen and is taken into any employment in a factory, shall not remain in that employment after the expiration of such period, not being less than seven days, as may be prescribed, unless he has been examined by the authorized factory doctor and certified by him to be fit for that employment.

(2) Where the authorized factory doctor after examining a young person, requires further information or further time for consideration before deciding whether or not to certify him as fit for employment or as to the conditions subject to which the certificate is to be issued, he may issue a provisional certificate authorizing the employment of the young person for such period as may be certified in the certificate, not exceeding twenty-one days from the date on which it was issued.

(3) Any certificate by the authorized factory doctor may be issued -

(a) in respect of employment in all factories in the occupation of the same occupier, or such of them as may be specified, in the certificate;

(b) subject to conditions as respects the nature of the work in which the person concerned is to be employed;

	(4) Where a certificate under this section in respect of any young person is issued by the authorized factory doctor upon any such condition as aforesaid, the young person shall not be employed except in accordance with the condition.

(5) Where the authorized factory doctor so directs in the certificate, any such condition as aforesaid shall, so far as relates to the employment in respect of which the certificate was issued or other employment in a factory in the occupation of the same occupier, continue to have effect after the young person has attained the age of sixteen; but unless such direction is made, the condition shall cease to have effect when the young person attains the age of sixteen,, and shall in any case cease to have effect when the young person attains the age of eighteen.

(6) Where a certificate under this section is subject to a condition requiring re-examination after an interval specified in the certificate, the authorized factory doctor, on such re-examination, may vary the certificate or may revoke the certificate as from such date as he may direct; and, if the certificate of a young person is revoked before he attains the age of sixteen, he shall not remain in any employment to which the certificate relates, and subsection (1) of this section shall thereafter have effect as if no certificate had been issued in respect of that young person.

	(7) Where a certificate under this section in respect of any young person is refused or revoked, the authorized. factory doctor shall, if requested to do so by the parent of the young person give to the 'parent in writing the reasons for the refusal or revocation.

(8) The Minister may make regulations prescribing-

(a) the manner in which, and the place at which, examinations under this section shall be conducted;

(b) the form of certificates under this section;

(c) the facilities to be afforded by occupiers of factories for the purpose of examinations under this section, including facilities for an authorized factory doctor to inspect any process in which a young person is to be employed;

(d) any other matter which the Minister may consider desirable for the purpose of giving effect to this section.

	(9) The Minister may by regulation exempt from the operation of this section any class or description of factory in which mechanical power is not used."

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