Section 18

to have every employee employed on the estate and any dependant of such employee who requires medical treatment to be transported safely without delay to and from the hospital provided for employees employed on the estate or, if there is no such hospital, to and from the nearest Government hospital; and

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to make such arrangements and to provide such appliances for the safe transport of a sick employee or any sick dependant of an employee to and from hospital as the

Medical Officer of Health or any Medical Officer may, from time to time, require.

The Medical Officer of Health or any Medical Officer may require the employer or resident manager to remove any employee on the estate who requires medical treatment to hospital.

Any employer or resident manager who contravenes the provisions of this section commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit and to a further fine of one thousand ringgit a day for each day during which the offence continues.

Medical treatment in estate on which a hospital is not maintained