Rule 75. Medical Examination and certification of adolescent under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 42 and safeguards for employment of adolescents under sub-section (2) of section 93

(1) The 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, certify such adolescent to be fit for working in an establishment, or on the application of the employer of an establishment in which any adolescent wishes to work, examine such person and ascertain his fitness for work in that establishment.

(2) The Medical Officer, after examination, may grant to such adolescent, in Form-8, 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 the Medical Officer may seek opinion of specialists like radiologist, dentist and orthopedic surgeon, as the case may be, for the purpose of determination of age of the adolescent:

Provided further 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 in his opinion, the holder of such certificate is no longer fit to work in the capacity stated therein in an establishment.