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Appointment and duties of inspectors.

Powers of inspectors.

Regulations.

Steam Boilers.

3. The Governor may appoint such inspectors as he thinks necessary for the execution of this Ordinance and may assign them their duties, and may regulate the cases and manner in which they are to perform the duties of inspectors under this Ordinance, and may remove such inspectors.

4. (1) Every inspector shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have power to do all or any of the following things--

(a) to enter at all reasonable times, by day and night, any premises in or upon which he has reasonable cause to believe that any boiler may be, and to inspect and examine any boiler and every part thereof;

(b) subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, to grant, suspend and revoke any certificate of fitness in respect of any boiler;

(c) to require the production of any certificate and any document kept in pursuance of this Ordinance or any regulations, and to inspect, examine and copy such certificate or document;

(d) to make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this Ordinance and of any regulations are complied with as respects any boiler; and

(e) to exercise such other powers as may be necessary for giving effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) The owner of every boiler and his servants shall furnish the means required by an inspector as necessary for any entry, inspection, examination, inquiry or the exercise of his powers under this Ordinance in relation to such boiler.

(3) If any person wilfully delays an inspector in the exercise of any power under this section or fails to comply with the requisition of an inspector in pursuance of this section, or to produce any certificate or document which he is required by or in pursuance of this Ordinance to produce, he shall be deemed to obstruct an inspector in the execution of his duties, and to be guilty of an offence.

5. The Governor in Council may by regulations prescribe or provide for-

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