Factories Act, 1955
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Appointment and duties of certifying doctors. |
96.—(1) The Minister may appoint registered medical practitioners to be certifying doctors for any of the purposes of this Act, and may revoke any such appointment. | |
(2) 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 certifying doctor for the factory. | ||
(3) The certifying doctor for a factory shall have power at all reasonable times to inspect the general register of the factory. | ||
(4) The Minister may make rules regulating the duties of certifying doctors. | ||
(5) A certifying doctor shall, if so directed by the Minister, make such special inquiry and examination of employed persons as may be directed. | ||
(6) Every certifying doctor shall in each year make at the time appointed by the Minister a report in the prescribed form to the Minister as to examinations made and other duties performed by him in pursuance of this Act. | ||
(7) If and so long as there is no certifying doctor for a factory, a district medical officer for the dispensary district in which the factory is situate shall act as the certifying doctor for the factory. | ||
(8) References in the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (No. 9 of 1934), to a certifying surgeon shall be construed as references to a certifying doctor appointed under this section, and references to the certifying surgeon for the district in which the workman is employed, shall in a case where a workman is employed in a district for which no certifying doctor is appointed, be construed as references to the medical practitioner (if any) appointed by the Minister to have the powers and duties of a certifying surgeon under Part X of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 , in such a case or, if no such appointment has been made, to the medical officer for the dispensary district in which the workman is employed. | ||
(9) The Civil Service Regulation Acts, 1924 and 1926, shall not apply to the office of certifying doctor. |