Perlodie examination of pressure vessels.
Power of Principal Surveyor to prohibit Use and operation of boiler
or pressure receiver la certain cases, and procedure thereafter.
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31. (1) Every existing pressure vessel shall be examined by an appointed examiner within twelve months after the commencement of this section.
(2) Every now pressure vessel shall be examined by an appointed examiner within twelve months after the date on which it is first put into use.
(3) Save as provided in subsections (1) and (2), every pressure vessel shall be examined by an appointed examiner within twelve months after the date marked thereon in accordance with this Ordinance as the date on which the last examination thereof was completed.
32. (1) Where it appears to the Principal Surveyor that- (u) a boiler or pressure receiver or any of its auxiliary equipment
is not, or may not be, in safe working order,
(b) a boiler or pressure receiver or any of its auxiliary equipment has not been examined or tested in accordance with this Ordinance or in accordance with a requirement of the Principal Surveyor made under this Ordinance:
(c) a boiler or pressure receiver, other than a pressure vessel, is being, or has been, operated at a pressure greater than its maximum permissible working pressure; or
(d) the seal attached to a safety valve by an appointed examiner has been broken, or the setting of a safety valve has been altered, by a person who is not an appointed examiner,
he may, by notice in writing served upon the owner thereof, prohibit the furiber use and operation of the boiler or pressure receiver, as the case may be.
(2) Every such order in respect of a boiler or pressure receiver. other than a pressure vessel, shall continue in force until the boiler or pressure receiver bas been examined by an appointed examiner and a certificate of fitness issued by him in respect thereof under section 33 and the Principal Surveyor has, upon production to him of the certificate of fitness, permitted the use thereof to be resumed, and every such order in respect of a pressure vessel shall continue in force until the pressure vessel has been examined by an appointed examiner and the examiner has, in the manner provided by section 35, certified that he is satisfied that it is in safe working order,
(3) At any time after any such order in respect of a boiler of pressure receiver, other than a pressure vessel, has been served, the Principal Surveyor or an appointed examiner acting under his directions may take such steps as he considers necessary to procure the immediate stoppage of the use and operation of the boiler or pressure receiver to which the order relates.
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33. (1) Save as otherwise provided, a certificate of fitness in Issue of respect of a boller or pressure receiver shall be issued-
(a) in the case of a boiler, only under the hand of the appointed examiner who examined the boiler when it was under the pressure that will be specified in the certificate of fitness as its maximum permissible working pressure: or
(b) in the case of a pressure receiver, only under the hand of the appointed examiner who examined the pressure receiver when it was under the pressure that will be specified in the certificate of fitness as its maximum permissible working pressure or who carried out the pressure accumulation test.
(2) (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (1) and without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, an appointed examiner may issue a certificate of fitness in respect of a boiler or pressure receiver notwithstanding that every part of the examination in question or every test required by this Ordinance to be carried out during such examination has not been carried out by him if he is satisfied that those parts of the examination in question that have not been carried out by bimm have been carried out in accordance with this Ordinance and that those tests of the boiler or pressure receiver, as the case may be, or its auxiliary equipment that have not been carried out by him have been carried out in accordance with this Ordinance and that the results thereof were satisfactory. (b) Where, pursuant to paragraph (a), a certificate of fitness is issued by an appointed examiner who has not carried out the whole of the examination of the boiler or pressure receiver or all of the tests thereof, cach appointed examiner by whom a part of the examination was carried out or by whom some of the tests were carried out shall enter in the certificate of fitness particulars as to the part of the examination, or as to the tests, that he carried out.
(3) Where, upon an examination of a boiler or pressure receiver for the purposes of this Ordinance, the appointed examiner-
(a) who has carried out the examination in accordance with this Ordinance and has carried out such tests of the boiler or pressure receiver or its auxiliary equipment as are required by this Ordinance to be carried out; or
(b) who, not having carried out the whole of the examination or not having carried out some or all of the tests of the boiler or pressure receiver or its auxiliary equipment required by this Ordinance to be carried out, has carried out the examination of the boiler or the examination or test of the pressure receiver specified in subsection (1),
certificates of fitness.