CAP. 226 [Rev. 2012] Employment [Subsidiary] EMPLOYMENT OF JUVENILES AT SEA (MEDICAL EXAMINATION) RULES, 1977 [L.N. 158/1977.] I. Citation These Rules may be cited as the Employment of Juveniles at Sea (Medical Examination) Rules, 1977. 2. Interpretation In these Rules the word “ship” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Interpretation and General Provisions Act (Cap. 2) but does not include a ship of the Kenya Navy. 3. Medical Certificates No juvenile shall be employed in or on any ship, other than a ship upon which only members of one family only are employed, without the production of a medical certificate attesting his fitness for such work, signed by a registered Medical Practitioner. 4. Duration of Certificates A medical certificate issued under these Rules shall be valid for one year only, except that a medical certificate which is due to expire during the course of a voyage shall remain in force until the end of that voyage. 5. Annual certificates The continued employment of every juvenile at sea shall be subject to and the production by him each year of a further medical certificate attesting his continuing fitness for such work. 6. Penalties Any person who contravenes any provisions of these Rules shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand shillings. [Issue 1] 62