Clause 60

Every registered medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from any of the diseases named in the Sixth Schedule to this Act and contracted in a factory shall (unless such a notice has been previously sent) forthwith send to the Chief Inspector a notice stating the name and full postal address of the patient and the disease from which in the opinion of the registered medical practitioner the patient is suffering, and the name and address of the factory in which he is or was last employed, and shall be entitled in respect of every notice so sent to a fee of ten dollars payable from the public funds.

If, in contravention of the provisions 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 five hundred dollars.

Written notice of every case of any of the diseases named in the Sixth Schedule to this Act occurring in a factory shall be sent by the occupier in the prescribed form and accompanied by the prescribed particulars to the Chief Inspector; and the provisions of section 49 of this Act 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.

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