Offences in relation to use and
operation of portable Kas genera- tors, elc.
Offences in relation to Boards of Inquiry.
Miscellancou offences and penalties therefor.
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53. (1) Save with the permission of the Principal Surveyor granted under section 59. no portable gas generator shall be used or operated.
(2) In the event of a contravention of subsection (I), the owner of the portable gas generator shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.
(3) In the event of a contravention of a condition imposed on the grant by the Principal Surveyor 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 two thousand dollars.
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 one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months:
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 catitled to the same privileges as those to which he would have been entitled had he been giving evidence before a court of justice.
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 Registrar or the Principal Surveyor pursuant to, or for the purposes of this Ordinance or any other document required by, under or for the purposes of this Ordinance;
(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 receiver a certificate of fitness that to his knowledge does not so apply:
(†) falsely certifies that he is satisfied that a pressure vessel is in
safe working order;
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(g) applies to a pressure vessel a mark that to his knowledge indicates falsely the date on which the pressure vessel was examined in accordance with this Ordinance or that to his knowledge indicates falsely that the pressure vessel has been examined in accordance with this Ordinance:
(k) utters or makes use of as applying to any person a certificate
of competency that to his knowledge does not so apply:
(7) personates the person named in a certificate of competency; or () wilfully obstructs or delays the Registrar, the Principal Surveyor, the Commissioner of Labour, any boiler inspector who is a public officer or any labour inspector in the exercise of any power conferred upon him by this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve mouths.
(2) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement made by the Registrar, the Principal Surveyor, the Commissioner of Labour, a boiler inspector who is a public officer or a labour inspector in the exercise of a power in that behalf conferred by this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
$6. (1) Any person who, by himself, or by or in conjunction with Corruption. any other person, corruptly solicits or receives, or agrees to receive for himself, or for any other person, any gift, loan, fee, reward or advantage whatsoever as an inducement to, or reward for, or otherwise on account of a boiler inspector, an air receiver inspector or a pressure vessel inspector, other than such an inspector who is an officer or servant of a public body within the meaning of the Prevention of Corruption Ordio- (Cap 2151, unce, giving a certificate of fitness or forbearing to make any report or notification required to be made by this Ordinance or doing or forbear- ing to do anything in respect of the giving of any such certificate or the making of any such report or notification, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who, by himself, or by or in conjunction with any other person, corruptly gives, promises or offers any gift, loan, fee, reward or advantage whatsoever to any person, whether for the benefit of that person or another person, as an inducement to, or reward for. or otherwise on account of a boiler inspector, an air receiver inspector or a pressure vessel inspector, other than such an inspector who is an officer or servant of a public body within the meaning of the Prevention (Cap. 215), of Corruption Ordinance, giving a certificate of fitness or forbearing to make any report or notification required to be made by this Ordinance or doing or forbearing to do anything in respect of the giving of any such certificate or the making of any such report or notification, shall be guilty of an offence.