Mines and Quarries Act 1954

92 Medical examination of young persons

Provision may be made by regulations for requiring young persons employed or seeking employment at mines to submit themselves for medical examination and for prohibiting the employment at a mine, either absolutely or in a particular capacity or in particular work, of—

(a) a young person who upon being required to submit him self for medical examination in accordance with the regulations fails without reasonable cause to do so;

(b) a young person as to whom it is determined in accordance with the regulations that, by reason of his physical or mental condition, he is unfit for such employment or for such employment in that capacity or in that work, as the case may be.