55 Functions of, and responsibility for maintaining, employment medical advisory service
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (1974 c 37) | Legislation

Part II The Employment Medical Advisory Service

55  Functions of, and responsibility for maintaining, employment medical advisory service

(1)     There shall continue to be an employment medical advisory service, which shall be maintained for the following purposes, that is to say—

(a)     securing that the Secretary of State, [the Health and Safety Executive] . . . and others concerned with the health of employed persons or of persons seeking or training for employment can be kept informed of, and adequately advised on, matters of which they ought respectively to take cognisance concerning the safeguarding and improvement of the health of those persons;

(b)     giving to employed persons and persons seeking or training for employment information and advice on health

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