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Factories (Amendment) Law (No. 12 of 1976) - Sect 47

Replacement of section 104 of the principal enactment

47. Section 104 of the principal enactment is repealed and tile following new section substituted therefor: -
104.
(1) Subject to any general directions of the Commissioner, the Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer may appoint a sufficient number of registered medical practitioners to be authorized factory doctors for any of the purposes of this Ordinance, and may revoke any such appointment.
(2) Every appointment and revocation of appointment of an authorized factory doctor may be annulled by the Commissioner upon appeal to him for that purpose.
(3) A registered medical practitioner who is the occupier of a factory, or is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in any process or business carried on therein, or in a patent connected therewith shall not act as authorized factory doctor for that factory;
(4) The authorized factory doctor for any factory shall have power at all reasonable times to inspect the general register of that factory.
(5) The Minister may make regulations as to the duties of authorized factory doctors.
(6) An authorized factory doctor shall, if so directed by the Commissioner, make such special inquiry and examination of employed persons as may be directed.
(7) Every authorized factory doctor shall in each year make a report at such time and in such form as may be prescribed, to the Commissioner as to examinations made and other duties performed by him in pursuance of this Ordinance.
(8) If and so long as there is no authorized factory doctor for any factory, the District Medical Officer appointed for the district in which the factory is situated shall act as the authorized factory doctor for that factory.
(9) The fees to be paid to authorized factory doctors for carrying out their duties under this Ordinance shall, so far as they relate to any examination or certificate with respect to the fitness of a young person for employment in a factory or to any examination or medical supervision of persons employed in a factory carried out in pursuance of regulations or an order under this Ordinance, be paid by the occupier of that factory, and in any other case shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund, and the fees shall, subject to any agreement between the authorized factory doctor and the occupier of a factory as respects the fees payable by the occupier, be of such amount as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister.".

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