
1 
These regulations shall come into operation
on 1st October 1964, and may be cited as the Mines (Medical Examinations)
Regulations 1964.
2 

(1) In these regulations
the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to
them, that is to say—
 “the Act” means 
the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;

 “approved doctor” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation 5;

 “medical examinations book”
 has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation 8;
 “the Medical Examinations Regulations
of 1956” means the Coal Mines (Medical Examinations) Regulations
1956;
and
 “the Miscellaneous Mines Regulations”
 means the Miscellaneous Mines (General) Regulations 1956.
(2) Expressions to which
meanings are assigned by the Act or by these regulations shall (unless the
contrary intention appears) have the same meanings in any document issued
under the provisions of these regulations.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889
shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the
interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 
The Medical Examinations Regulations
of 1956 and regulation 70
of the Miscellaneous Mines Regulations are hereby revoked.
4 
These regulations shall apply to every mine
of every class.
5 

(1) The owner of every
mine shall make arrangements for the medical examination at the expense of
the owner by an approved doctor of every young person when first employed
or about to be so employed, before or within thirty days after the first employment
of that young person at the mine:Provided that this paragraph
shall not apply in relation to a young person who—
(a) has
been medically examined pursuant to this paragraph in connection with employment
at another mine;
(b) has
been medically examined pursuant to the Medical Examinations Regulations
of 1956 and to whom there was issued pursuant
thereto a certificate which specified that he was fit for employment at a
mine; or
(c) has
been medically examined pursuant to regulation 70
of the Miscellaneous Mines Regulations and has been certified fit for employment
at a mine.
(2) The owner of every
mine shall make arrangements for the medical examination at the expense of
the owner by an approved doctor of every young person employed at the mine
who has been medically examined pursuant to the Medical Examinations Regulations
of 1956 and to whom a certificate pursuant
to those regulations has been issued which specifies that a further examination
of that young person is requisite, before or within thirty days after the
date so specified for such further examination.
(3) The owner of every
mine shall make arrangements for the medical examination at the expense of
the owner by an approved doctor of every young person employed at the mine
who has already been medically examined pursuant to either of the two preceding
paragraphs, before or within thirty days after the expiry of the last certificate
given pursuant to the next following paragraph in respect of that young person.

(4) The arrangements
mentioned in the three preceding paragraphs shall provide for the approved
doctor to give a certificate of the result of the examination by making and
signing an entry thereof in the medical examinations book provided by the
owner of the mine.
(5) Such certificate
may state whether in the opinion of the approved doctor the young person is—

(a) fit for employment
at a mine;
(b) unfit for employment
at a mine in a capacity or in work specified in such certificate; or
(c) unfit for employment
at a mine,and if in the opinion of the approved doctor further examination
is requisite within a period less than a year the certificate may specify
such period.
(6) The arrangements
mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this regulation shall provide
for the approved doctor, if required by the young person examined, to give
to him a copy of the certificate and other entries in the medical examinations
book in respect of the examination made pursuant to such arrangements.
(7) A certificate given
in pursuance of this regulation shall—
(a) expire if a period
within which further examination is requisite is specified pursuant to paragraph
(5) of this regulation upon the expiration of that period and in any other
case twelve months after the date of the examination in respect of which the
certificate was given; and
(b) be revoked by
the giving of any further certificate given pursuant to these regulations
in respect of the same young person.
(8) For the purpose of
these regulations “an approved doctor” means a fully registered medical practitioner who is approved by the Minister
for the purposes of these regulations.
6 

(1) The owner of a mine
shall give notice to every young person employed or to be employed at the
mine, for whose medical examination arrangements are required by the last
preceding regulation to be made, requiring him to attend the approved doctor
by whom he is to be examined and specifying the date and time and place at
which the young person is to attend for such medical examination.
(2) The date specified
in such notice shall be—
(a) in the case of
a young person to be examined pursuant to regulation 5(1)
before or within thirty days after the commencement of his employment;
(b) in the case of
a young person to be examined pursuant to regulation 5(2)
before or within thirty days after the date specified in the certificate therein
mentioned for further examination; and
(c) in any other
case before or within thirty days after the expiry of the certificate given
in respect of the previous medical examination of that young person pursuant
to these regulations.
(3) When any such notice
as is mentioned in paragraph (1) of this regulation is given the owner of
the mine shall give to the approved doctor, by whom the young person is to
be examined, notice thereof including the name, date of birth and residence
of that young person, and, in the case of a medical examination other than
the first such examination of that young person pursuant to these regulations,
particulars of the last certificate given in respect of that young person,
unless the book containing such certificate is to be produced to the approved
doctor at the time when that young person is to be examined, and in such case
the notice shall state that such book is to be so produced and the page thereof
upon which such certificate appears.
(4) Every notice required
to be served pursuant to this regulation shall be in writing and shall be
served on the young person or the approved doctor as the case may be not less
than four days before the date specified in such notice on which that young
person is to attend for examination.
7 

(1) No young person,
for whose medical examination arrangements are to be made pursuant to regulation 5, shall be employed
at a mine after the last date upon which such medical examination ought to
take place pursuant thereto, until a certificate in respect of such examination
has been given.
(2) No young person shall
be employed at any mine or employed in any capacity or in any work at a mine,
if there is in force a certificate given in respect of that young person pursuant
to these regulations stating that he is unfit for any employment at a mine,
or for employment in that capacity or in that work, as the case may be:Provided that a young person
may be so employed for a period not exceeding fourteen days from the giving
of such certificate if it appears that the nature of his unfitness is such
that his continued employment for that period will not be prejudicial to the
health and safety of that young person or of any other person.
8 
The owner of every mine
shall provide a book (in these regulations referred to as a 
“medical examinations book”) in which shall be
entered particulars of every notice given to a young person to attend for
any medical examination and every certificate given after such examination,
and in any case in which the employment of a young person is terminated in
pursuance of regulation 7
the date of termination and the reason therefor.
9 
The manager of any mine shall, if so requested
by the owner or manager of any other mine, send to him any information with
respect to any young person as such owner or manager may reasonably require
to enable him or them to comply with these regulations with respect to the
employment of that young person at that other mine, being information recorded
in pursuance of regulation 5
of the Medical
Examinations Regulations of 1956 or otherwise,
in the register of young persons kept in pursuance of section 131 of the Act, or recorded
in pursuance of these regulations in the medical examinations book.
F. J. Erroll
Minister of Power
Dated 13th February 1964