{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-medical-advisory-service-act-1972/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-medical-advisory-service-act-1972/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/28",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-medical-advisory-service-act-1972",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General amendments.",
  "text": "(1) The position and functions of appointed factory doctors are hereby abolished; . . .\n(2) Section 146(1)(g) of the Factories Act 1961 (by which an inspector, if a fully registered medical practitioner, is empowered to carry out medical examinations necessary for his duties under that Act) shall cease to have effect.\n(3) In section 180 (6) of the Factories Act 1961 (power to prescribe standards or impose requirements by reference to approval of chief inspector) after the words “ of the chief inspector” there shall be added the words “ or of the chief employment medical adviser or a deputy chief employment medical adviser”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words provide for amendments of Factories Act 1961 (c. 34) specified in Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1961 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of 2(2)(3), 3, 4(1), 9(2), Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/28/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:02.483116+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}