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Power to require medical examination.- (1) Where the competent authority is of the opinion that any person employed as porter to assist the climbing/trekking parties,- (a) is suffering from an infectious or contagious disease; or (b) is without a certificate of fitness; or (c) is a person with a certificate of fitness, but is no longer fit to work in the capacity stated in the certificate; it may serve on the manager of the climbing trekking party, a notice requiring that such person shall be examined by a qualified medical practitioner to whom the competent authority may refer for medical examination and such person shall not be employed or permitted to work as porter, until he has been examined and has been certified that he has been granted a fresh certificate of fitness. (2) Every certificate which has been granted by a qualified medical practitioner on a reference under sub-section (1) shall for the purposes of this Act be conclusive evidence of the matters stated therein.