(1) Where an Inspector has an apprehension that any adolescent has been employed in any of the occupation or processes in which he is prohibited to be employed under section 3A of the Act, he may require the employer of such adolescent to produce to the Inspector a certificate of age from the appropriate medical authority.
(2) The appropriate medical authority shall, while examining an adolescent for issuing the certificate of age under subrule (1), take into account –
(i) the Aadhar card of the adolescent, and in the absence thereof; (ii) the date of birth certificate from school or the matriculation or equivalent certificate from the concerned examination Board of the adolescent, if available, and in the absence thereof; (iii) the birth certificate of the adolescent given by a corporation or a municipal authority or a Panchayat;
and only in the absence of any of the methods specified in clauses (i) to (iii), the age shall be determined by such medical authority through an ossification test or any other latest medical age determination test.
(3) The ossification test or any other latest medical age determination test shall be conducted on the order of the appropriate authority of the rank of Additional Labour Commissioner, as may be specified by the Central Government in this behalf, and such determination shall be completed within fifteen days from the date of such order.
(4) The certificate of age referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be issued in Form B.
(5) The charges payable to the medical authority for the issue of the certificate of age shall be same as specified by the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, for their Medical Boards.
(6) The charges payable to the medical authority shall be borne by the employer of the adolescent whose age is determined under this rule.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this rule, –
(i) "medical authority" means a Government medical doctor not below the rank of an Assistant Surgeon of a District or a regular doctor of equivalent rank employed in Employees‘ State Insurance dispensaries or hospitals;
(ii) "adolescent" means an adolescent as defined in clause (i) of section 2 of the Act.
Adoloscent/Young Person
Child Labour
