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Article 6 Articles of agreement shall contain a brief summary of the provisions of this Convention. Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1946 PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1 1. This Convention applies to children and young persons employed or working in, or in connection with, industrial undertakings, whether public or private. 2. For the purpose of this Convention, the term " industrial undertaking " includes particularly — (a) Mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth: (b) Undertakings in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding or in the generation, transformation, or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind: (c) Undertakings engaged in building and civil engineering work, including constructional, repair, mamtenance, alteration, and demolition work : (d) Undertakings engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by road, rail, inland waterway or air, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, warehouses, or airports. 3. The competent authority shall define the line of division which separates industry from agriculture, commerce and other non-industrial occupations. Article 2 1. Children and young persons under eighteen years of age shall not be admitted to employment by an industrial undertaking unless they have been found fit for the work on which they are to be employed by a thorough medical examination. 2. The medical examination for fitness for employment shall be carried out by a qualified physician approved by the competent authority and shall be certified either by a medical certificate or by an endorsement on the work permit or in the workbook. 3. The document certifying fitness for employment may be issued—(a) Subject to specified conditions of employment: (b) For a specified job or for a group of jobs or occupations involving similar health risks which have been classified as a group by the authority responsible for the enforcement of the laws and regulations concerning medical examinations for fitness for employment. 4. National laws or regulations shall specify the authority competent to issue the document certifying fitness for employment and shall define the conditions to be observed in drawing up and issuing the document. Article 3 1. The fitness of a child or young person for the employment in which he is engaged shall be subject to medical supervision until he has attained the age of eighteen years. 2. The continued employment of a child or young person under eighteen years of age shall be subject to the repetition of medical examinations at intervals of not more than one year. 3. National laws or regulations shall — (а) Make provision for the special circumstances in which a medical re-examination shall be required in addition to the annual examination or at more frequert intervals in order to ensure effective supervision in respect of the risks involved in the occupation and of the state of health of the child or young person as shown by previous examinations ; or (б) Empower the competent authority to require medical re-examinations in exceptional cases. Article 4 1. In occupations which involve high health risks medical examination and re-examinations for fitness for employment shall be required until at least the age of twenty-one years. 2. National laws or regulations shall either specify, or empower an appropriate authority to specify, the occupations or categories of occupations in which medical examination and re-examinations for fitness for employment shall be required until at least the age of twenty-one years. Article 5 The medical examination required by the preceding Articles shall not involve the child or young person, or his parents, in any expense.

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