Contingency Fees Act, 1997
R 385.00
Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973 (Act No. 78 of 1973)Chapter III : Certificates of fitness, and medical and other examinations33. Report by medical practitioner on person who has worked at mine or works |
| (1) | Whenever a medical practitioner in the Republic considers or suspects that any person medically examined or treated by him, who has to his knowledge worked at a mine or works, or who he or she believes on reasonable grounds to have so worked, is suffering from a compensatable disease, such practitioner shall forthwith communicate to the director his findings at the examination, and shall on demand by the director furnish such further information at his disposal in regard to the examination or the health of such person as the director may require. |
| (2) | The director may in writing direct a medical practitioner who has communicated his findings at the examination of any person to the director as contemplated in subsection (1), to perform, with the consent of the person concerned, a further medical examination of that person or such an examination of a nature determined by the director, and a medical practitioner so directed who has performed an examination in accordance with the direction, shall forthwith submit to the director a detailed report on the result of the examination. |
