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(4) The Registrar shall remove from the register of boiler inspec- tors and air receiver inspectors or the register of pressure vessel inspec- tors, as the case may be, the name of any person whose appointment to be a boiler inspector or an air receiver inspector or a pressure vessel inspector has been revoked and shall, during the continuance in force of a suspension of the appointment of a person to be a boiler inspector or an air receiver inspector or a pressure vessel inspector, keep in the register of boiler inspectors and air receiver inspectors or the register of pressure vessel inspectors, as the case may be, such entry as be con- siders sufficient to indicate the suspension.
(5) The Registrar shall remove from the register of competent persons the name of any person whose certificate of competency has been revoked or is, under paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section 6. deemed to have been revoked.
8. (1) Whenever an explosion has occurred in a boiler of pres- surc receiver--
(a) the Principal Surveyor may make a preliminary inquiry with
respect to the explosion; and
(5) whether or not the Principal Surveyor makes a preliminary inquiry, the Registrar may appoint a Board of Inquiry whose function it shall be to inquire into and determine, so far as may be possible, the cause of the explosion.
(2) (a) Every Board of Inquiry shall consist of-
() a magistrate nominated by the Chief Justice or a legal officer nominated by the Attorney General;
(i) the Principal Surveyor or a boiler inspector; and (ii) one other person who has such qualifications as the Registrar considers suitable and who is not a public officer or a boiler inspector.
(6) The magistrate or legal officer, as the case may be, shall be
the chairman of a Board of Inquiry.
(3) For the purposes of a preliminary inquiry, the Principal Sur- veyor shall have the following powers-
(a) to enter and inspect any premises the entry or inspection of
which appears to him to be necessary:
(b) to inspect and examine the boiler or pressure receiver and its
auxiliary equipment;
(c) to require the production of any document or thing in the
possession of any person; and
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(d) to require any person to answer such inquiries as he considers
it necessary to make.
(4) (a) For the purpose of its inquiry, a Board of Inquiry shall
have the following powers-
(i) to hear evidence on oath or otherwise;
(ii) to summon any person to attend any sitting of the Board to give evidence or to produce any document or thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce such document or thing, subject to all just exceptions:
(iii) to enter and inspect any premises the entry or inspec- tion of which appears to it to be necessary: and
(iv) to inspect and examine the boiler or pressure receiver and its auxiliary equipment.
(b) A witness summons shall be in such form as the chairman of
the Board of Inquiry directs and shall be signed by bim.
(5) The report on a preliminary inquiry may, save where a Board of Inquiry has been, or is to be, appointed, be made public in such manner as the Principal Surveyor thinks fit, and the report of a Board of Inquiry shall be made public in such manner as the Registrar directs.
9. (1) The Principal Surveyor may, upon application in writing Power of in that behalf, exempt from any of the provisions of this Ordinance a Principal Surveyor boiler or pressure receiver to which be is satisfied that such provision to exempt cannot reasonably be applied.
Individual bailers or
(2) Any such exemption shall be subject to such conditions as the pressung Principal Surveyor specifies and may be withdrawn at any time.
receivers Team provi sions of
(3) The Principal Surveyor shall notify the Registrar of the grant Ordinance. or withdrawal of any such exemption.
10. (1) The Registrar may by order exempt from any of the pro- Power of visions of this Ordinance boilers or pressure receivers of a class or Registrar type to which he is satisfied that such provision cannot reasonably be classes or applied.
types of
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boiler or
pressure
(2) Any such exemption shall be subject to such conditions as receiver from may be specified in the order.
provisions or Ordioance.
(3) The Registrar may by order cancel or amend any order made under subsection (1).
(4) A notification of every order made under this section shall be published in the Gazette.