Singapore legislation

Section 67

of Factories Act

Section 67

Notification of industrial diseases

Amended by19/7819/78

(1)

Every registered medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from any of the diseases specified in the Sixth Schedule and contracted in a factory shall (unless such a notice has been previously sent) forthwith send to the Chief Inspector a notice in the form set out in the Tenth Schedule.

Amended by19/78

(2)

If, in contravention of this section, any registered medical practitioner fails to send any notice in accordance with the requirements thereof, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500.

(3)

Written notice of every case of any of the diseases specified in the Sixth Schedule occurring in a factory shall be sent by the occupier in the form set out in the Eleventh Schedule and accompanied by the prescribed particulars to the Chief Inspector; and section 51 with respect to the notification of dangerous occurrences shall apply to any such case in like manner as to any such dangerous occurrence as is mentioned in those provisions.

Amended by19/78

(4)

The Minister may, as regards all factories or any class or description of factory, by order to be published in the Gazette apply this section to any disease other than those specified in the Sixth Schedule.[60