FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 10A Medical examinations of persons employed in factories.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 10A

Medical examinations of persons employed in factories.

10A.(1) If an employment medical adviser is of opinion that there ought, on
grounds mentioned in subsection (2), to be a medical examination of a person
or persons employed in a factory, he may serve on the occupier of the factory
a written notice stating that he is of that opinion and requiring that
the occupier shall permit a medical examination in accordance with this
section of the person or persons in question, and the examination shall be
permitted accordingly.

(2) The grounds on which a medical examination of a person may be required by
an employment medical adviser's notice under subsection (1) are that (in the
adviser's opinion) the person's health has been or is being injured, or it is
possible that it has been, is being or will be injured, by reason of the
nature of the work he is or has been called upon to do or may (to the
adviser's knowledge) be called upon to do; and a notice under that subsection
may be given with respect to one or more named persons or to persons of a
class or description specified in the notice.

(3) A notice under subsection (1) shall name the place where the
medical examination is to be conducted and, if it is a place other than the
factory, the day on which and the time at which it is to be begun; and

(a)every person to whom the notice relates shall be informed, as soon as
practicable after service thereof, of the contents thereof and of the fact
that he is free to attend for the purpose of submitting to the examination;
and

(b)if the notice states that the examination is to be conducted at the
factory, suitable accommodation thereat shall be provided for the conduct of
the examination.

(4) A medical examination conducted in pursuance of a notice under subsection
(1) shall be begun within seven days after the day on which the notice is
served and shall be conducted by, or in accordance with arrangements made by,
an employment medical adviser, and take place at a reasonable time during
working hours.

(5) An employment medical adviser may, by written notice served on
the occupier of a factory, cancel a notice served on the occupier under
subsection (1); and a notice which relates to two or more named persons may be
cancelled either in relation to them all or in relation to any one or more of
them.

(6) In this section, "medical examination" includes pathological,
physiological and radiological tests and similar investigations.]

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 10A