1988 Ed.]
Boilers and Pressure Vessels
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Offences in relation to use and operation of portable gas generators, etc.
53. (1) Save with the permission of the Authority granted under section 59, no portable gas generator shall be used or operated.
(2) In the event of a contravention of subsection (1), the owner of the portable gas generator shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $20,000.
(3) In the event of a contravention of a condition imposed on the grant by the Authority under section 59 of his permission to use and operate a portable gas generator, the owner of the portable gas generator shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $5,000.
(Amended 18 of 1982 s. 9; 87 of 1988 s. 35)
Offences in relation to Boards of Inquiry
54. Any person who, being duly summoned to attend as a witness any sitting of a Board of Inquiry or to produce any document or thing, refuses or neglects to do so or to answer any question put to him by or with the consent of the Board of Inquiry shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months: (Amended 18 of 1982 s. 10)
Provided that no person shall be bound to incriminate himself and every witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before a Board of Inquiry, be entitled to the same privileges as those to which he would have been entitled had he been giving evidence before a court of justice.
Miscellaneous offences and penalties therefor
55. (1) Any person who-
(a) forges a certificate of fitness or a certificate of competency or any notice or form delivered or sent to the Authority or an authorized officer pursuant to, or for the purposes of, this Ordinance or any other document required by, under or for the purposes of this Ordinance; (Amended 87 of 1988 s. 24)
(b) makes or causes to be made in a certificate of fitness or in any such notice, form or document any statement or entry that is false in a material particular;
(c) gives or signs a certificate of fitness or any such notice, form or document knowing it to be false in a material particular;
(d) utters or makes use of a certificate of fitness or a certificate of competency or any such notice, form or document knowing the same to be forged or to be false in a material particular;
(e) utters or makes use of as applying to a boiler or pressure vessel a certificate of fitness that to his knowledge does not so apply;
(f) falsely certifies that he is satisfied that a pressurized fuel container is in safe working order;