(1) The State Government may appoint qualified medical practitioners to be certifying surgeons for the purposes of this Act within such local limits or for such plantation or class of plantations as it may assign to them respectively.
(2) The certifying surgeon shall carry out such duties as may be prescribed in connection with--
(a) the examination and certification of workers;
(b) the exercise of such medical supervisions as may be prescribed where adolscents 1[are], employed in any work in any plantation which is likely to clause injury to their health.
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1. Substituted by the Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 2010 for the following : - "and children are, or are to be"