Section 32
Notification of occupational diseases
of Factories and Machinery Act 1967
(1)
Every registered medical practitioner attending on, or called in to visit, a patient whom he believes to be suffering from any of the diseases named in the Third Schedule and contracted in a factory shall, unless such notice has been previously sent—
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(a)
forthwith sent to the Chief Inspector a notice stating the name and location of the factory in which the patient states he is or was last employed, the name and full postal address of the patient and the disease from which, in the opinion of the registered medical practitioner, the patient is suffering; and
(b)
at the same time send a copy of the notice to the occupier of the factory in which the patient states he is or was last employed.