Registration
of boilers
and pressure receivers, elc.
Registrar to be notified of sale or hiring of boilers, etc.
Power of
Principal
Surveyor to
require
details of boilers or pressure receivers to be delivered to him.
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16. (1) The Registrar shall-
(a) in the case of an existing boiler, pressure receiver or steam container, upon receipt of the documents of the plans and particulars, as the case may be, required by section 11 or 12. as the case may be, and of an application in the prescribed form for the registration of the boiler, pressure receiver or steam container; or
(b) in the case of a new boiler, pressure receiver or steam container, upon receipt of the documents required by section 13 or 14, as the case may be, and of an application in the prescribed form for the registration of the boiler, pressure receiver or steam container,
allot to the boiler, pressure receiver or steam container, as the case may be, a registration number and enter it in the register of boilers and pressure receivers.
(2) The owner of a registered boiler, pressure receiver or steam container shall cause the registration number thereof to be marked on the boiler, pressure receiver or steam container in a conspicuous position at all times.
17. (1) The owner of a registered boiler, pressure receiver, other than a pressure vessel, or steam container who sells the same or hires it to any person shall, within seven days of the sale or the agreement for hire, as the case may be, notify the Registrar of the name and address of the person to whom the boiler, pressure receiver or steam container, as the case may be, has been sold or hired and, where the boiler. pressure receiver or steam container is not so designed as to be transport- able from one place to another, shall also notify the Registrar whether or not the sale or biring bas resulted or will result in the removal of the
same.
(2) The owner of a registered boiler, pressure receiver, other than a pressure vessel, or steam container shall, within seven days of the change, notify the Registrar of any change in his address.
18. Without prejudice to subsection (2) of section 11, the Principal Surveyor may, where he considers it necessary to do so for the purpose of enabling him to make an assessment of the maximum permissible working pressure at which a boiler or pressure receiver may be operated, require the owner of the boiler or pressure receiver to deliver to him complete details of the materials used in, and the method of, the con- struction of the boiler or pressure receiver and its auxiliary equipment and dimensions of all the parts and fittings thereof or of such of those parts and fittings as he specifies.
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Pressure vessels.
19. (1) Within thirty days after a new pressure vessel is first put Regiurar to into use, the owner of the pressure vessel shall notify the Registrar that be notified it has been put into use and of the place at which it is being used and
of pressure vessels that shall also notify the Registrar of his address.
are being used.
(2) Within six months after the commencement of this section, the owner of an existing pressure vessel shall notify the Registrar of the place at which it is being used and of his address.
20. (1) The Registrar shall enter in the register of pressure vessels Registration every pressure vessel in respect of which he receives notice under section of pressure 19 and may enter in the register any other pressure vessel whose cxistence comes to bis notice if the same is being used.
(2) The Registrar shall allot a registration number to every pressure vessel that he enters in the register of pressure vessels and shall, wherever practicable, notify the owner of the pressure vessel of the number so allotted.
(3) The owner of a registered pressure vessel who has been notified by the Registrar of the registration number allotted thereto shall cause the number to be marked on the pressure vessel in a conspicuous position at all times.
vessels, etc.
21. (1) The owner of a registered pressure vessel who sells the Registrar 10 same shall, within seven days after the sale, notify the Registrar of the be botified pame and address of the person to whom it has been sold.
(2) The owner of a registered pressure vessel shall, within seven days after the change, notify the Registrar of any change in the place at which he is using the pressure vessel or in his address.
PART IV.
MAINTENANCE AND EXAMINATION OF BOILERS, PRESSURE RECEIVERS AND STEAM CONTAINERS, AND CONTRO).
OF USE AND OPERATION THEREOF.
of sale of Pressure yease), etc.
22. (1) Every boiler and pressure receiver and its auxiliary equip- Maintenance ment shall be properly maintained.
of boilers and pressure (2) Every steam container shall be so maintained that the outlet receivers,
boiler-houses therefrom is, at all times, open and free from obstruction,
And fire- fighting
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub- appliances, section (1), every fitting and storage tank connected with a fuel burning etc. installation shall be free from defective joints,
(4) Every place in which a boiler is situated shall be maintained in a clean condition and free from any waste inflammable material.