The Miscellaneous Mines Order 1956

70.  No young person who has not attained the age of sixteen shall be employed at a mine unless he has been examined by a medical practitioner who is an appointed factory doctor for the purposes of the Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948 in like manner as if the examination were an examination for the purposes of those Acts and he has been certified by that practitioner to be fit for that employment.