Older Persons Act, 2006
R 385
Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973 (Act No. 78 of 1973)Chapter IV : Certification of compensatable diseases42. Powers of chairmen of certification committee and reviewing authority |
| (1) | The chairman of the certification committee and the chairman of the reviewing authority shall each have the same powers as those conferred upon the director by sections 5 (1) and 6, and the provisions of those sections relating to the exercise of such powers by the director shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to the exercise of such powers by the chairman in question. |
| (2) | The chairman of the certification committee may by notice in writing direct any medical practitioner who has performed a medical examination of a person who works or has worked at a controlled mine or a controlled works, to submit to that committee a full report on such examination, or to appear before that committee at a time and place specified in the notice, in order to answer such relevant questions as may be put to him or her by the said chairman or any other member of that committee. |
| (3) | The chairman of the certification committee or the chairman of the reviewing authority may of his own motion or at the request of any person whose case is being dealt with by that committee or authority, as the case may be, by notice in writing direct such person to appear before that committee or authority at a time and place specified in the notice in order to answer such relevant questions as may be put to him or her by the chairman or any other member of that committee or authority, or in order to undergo a medical examination. |
