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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
169Certificate of medical fitness
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169 Certificate of medical fitness
A certificate of medical fitness must:
(a) be issued by a registered medical practitioner with training in
underwater medicine; and
(b) state the following:
(i) the name of the person to whom it is issued;
(ii) its date of issue and its expiry date;
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(iii) whether or not the person to whom it is issued is, in
accordance with the fitness criteria, medically fit to carry
out diving work;
(iv) any conditions in relation to the type of diving work the
person to whom it is issued is fit to carry out, or the
circumstances in which the person is fit to carry out
general diving work, including, in the case of a person
who is under 18 years of age, any particular conditions
applicable to the age of the person.