Section 26AYoung persons not to be allowed underground without certificates of fitness

s. 26A

26A. Young persons not to be allowed underground without certificates of fitness [No person who has not completed his [eighteenth year] shall be employed in any part of mine, unless- (a) a certificate of fitness in the prescribed form and granted to him by a qualified medical practitioner is in the custody of the manager of the mine, and (b) he carries while at work a token giving a reference to such certificate.]

1. 18. Section 26A was inserted by section 12 of the Mines (Amendment) Act, 1951 (Act No. XXIX of 1951)
2. 19. The words "eighteenth year" were substituted, for the words "seventeenth year" by sections 3 and 4 of the Mines (Amendment) Act, 2005 (Act No. IV of 2005)