FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS
(NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES)
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 59. section 7)

[12 March 1965.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial
Undertakings (Notification of Occupational Diseases) Regulations.

2. In these regulations. unless the context otherwise requires

'medical practitioner' means a person who is registered, or deemed to
be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical
Registration Ordinance;

.,occupational disease- means any disease specified in the First
Schedule.

3. (1) If, upon an examination of any person who is or has been
employed in an industrial undertaking or of the body of any deceased
person who was at the time of his death so employed or who had been
so employed, a medical practitioner believes that that person is
suffering from an occupational disease or was at the time of his death
suffering from an occupational disease, he shall forthwith notify the
Director of Medieal and Health Services by sending to him 2 copies of a
notice in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule.

(2) The Director of Medical and Health Services shall deliver to the
Commissioner 1 copy of the notice given pursuant to paragraph (1).

(3)(a) A medical practitioner who makes application therefor
within 1 month after the giving of the notice shall be paid by
the Director of Medical and Health Services a fee of $2 in
respect of each notice given pursuant to paragraph (1).

(b)Sub-paragraph (a) does not apply in the case of a medical
practitioner who is a public officer.

4. Any person who contravenes regulation 3(1) shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of
$10,000.





FIRST SCHEDULE [reg. 2.1

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE

1. Poisoning by lead. manganese. phosphorus. arsenic, mercury, carbon
bisulphide. benzene or a homologue thereof. a nitro-derivative or amido-derivative
of benzene or of a homologue of benzene. dinitrophenol or a homologue of
dinitrophenol. cadmium. tri-cresy 'I phosphate. halogen derivatives of
hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series or nitrous fumes.

2. Anthrax.

3. Primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin or ulceration of the corneal
surface of the eye.

4. Chrome ulceration.

5. Inflammation or ulceration of the skin produced by, dust, liquid or vapour
(including the condition known as chloracne but excluding chrome ulceration).

6. Heat cataract.

7. Decompression sickness.

8. Pathological manifestations due to radium or other radioactive substances
or X-rays.

9. Silicosis.

10. Asbestosis.

SECOND SCHEDULE [rep. 3(1)
FORM OF NOTICE

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICA-
TION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS
Notice ol Occupational Disease
To: Director of Medical and Health Services
Notice is hereby given of the following occu-
pational disease-
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

........................................................... Case No.:-
Ref. No.: -
confirmed, suspected*
Possible cause . .................................................. Action taken:

Date contracted of recurrence* . .... ..................
Name of patient deceased . ...............................

Sex . Age .

Home address . .................................................

.............

Employed as . . ....................................................
Name, address and trade or industry of employer . ..................................................

..........
................................................................................................
.........................







Hospital sent to (if any) . . ........
Name and address of notifying medical practitioner . ..............................................

....................................
Date . ..............................19

................

Signature of notifying medical practitioner

*Delete whichever is inapplicable.
L.N. 39/65. L.N. 317/81. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 161.) First Schedule. Medical practitioners to notify cases of occupational disease. Second Schedule. Offences and penalties. L.N. 317 81. L.N. 317 81.

L.N. 39/65. L.N. 317/81. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 161.) First Schedule. Medical practitioners to notify cases of occupational disease. Second Schedule. Offences and penalties. L.N. 317 81. L.N. 317 81.

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