The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025
Rule 59. Medical Examination and certification of adolescent under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 42
Official text
(1) A medical officer shall, on the application of any adolescent or his parent or guardian accompanied by a document signed by the employer of an establishment that such person will be employed therein if certified to be fit for work in an establishment, or on the application of the employer of the establishment in which any adolescent wishes to work, examine such person and ascertain his fitness for work in an establishment.
(2) The medical officer, after examination, may grant to such adolescent, in Form- 22, or may renew, a certificate of fitness to work in an establishment as an adolescent, if he is satisfied that the adolescent has completed his fourteenth year, has attained the prescribed physical standards and is fit for such work;
Provided that unless the medical officer has personal knowledge of the place where the adolescent proposes to work and of the manufacturing process in which he will be employed, he shall not grant or renew a certificate under this sub-rule until he has examined such place.
(3) A certificate of fitness granted or renewed under sub-rule (2),
(a) shall be valid only for a period of twelve months from the date thereof;
(b) may be made subject to conditions with regard to the nature of the work in which adolescent may be employed, or requiring re-examination of the adolescent before the expiry of the period of twelve months.
(4) A medical officer shall revoke any certificate granted or renewed under sub-rule (2), if ln his opinion the holder of it is no longer fit to work in the capacity stated therein in an establishment.
(5) Where a certificate under this rule with reference to any adolescent is granted or renewed subject to such conditions as are referred to in sub-rule (3), the adolescent shall not be required or allowed to work in any establishment, except in accordance with those conditions.
(8) Medical Officer shall maintain record of examinations under this rule in Form-23.