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First examination of existing boilers and pressure receivers. (Cap. 50.

New boiler und pressure receivers to

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(5) Every appliance provided in connexion with a boiler or its auxiliary equipment for use in combatting an outbreak of fire shall be properly maintained and situated in a readily accessible place.

23. (1) Every existing boiler and its auxiliary equipment shall be examined by an appointed examiner within twelve months after the last examination thereof under and for the purposes of the Steam Boilers Ordinance repealed by section 72 or not later than two months after the commencement of this Ordinance, whichever is the later.

(2) Every existing steam receiver and its auxiliary equipment and every existing air receiver, other than a pressure vessel, and its fittings and attachments shall be examined by an appointed examiner within twelve months after the commencement of this Ordinance.

24. (1) Upon completion of the installation of a new boiler or steam receiver, other than an air receiver, and before the same is put into use, the boiler or steam receiver and its auxiliary equipment shall before being be examined by an appointed examiner.

be examined

put into use.

Boiters and steam

(2) Every new air receiver, other than a pressure vessel, and its fittings and attachments shall be examined by an appointed examiner before it is put into use.

25. Every boiler or steam receiver that is to be put into use in premises other than those in which it was previously used shall, together with its auxiliary equipment, be examined by an appointed examiner new premises before it is put into use in such premises.

receivers to be used in

to be

examined.

before being put into use.

Boilers and

pressure

receivers to which extensive repairs, ckl have beco made to he examined before being again put into use,

Periodic examination

of boilers

and pressure receivers.

26. (1) Every boiler or steam receiver in respect of which exten- sive repairs have been carried out or, save where the same is designed so as to be transportable from one place to another, that has been removed from one part of any premises to another part thereof shall, together with its auxiliary equipment, be examined by an appointed examiner before it is again put into use.

(2) Every air receiver, other than a pressure vessel, in respect of which extensive repairs have been carried out or, save where the same is designed so as to be transportable from one place to another, that bas been removed from one part of any premises to another part thereof shall, together with its futings and attachments, be examined by an appointed examiner before it is again put into use.

27. Save as otherwise provided-

(a) every boiler and its auxiliary equipment shall be examined by an appointed examiner within fourteen months after the date on which the last certificate of fitness issued in respect of the boiler was issued; and

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(6) every steam receiver and its auxiliary equipment and every air receiver, other than a pressure vessel, and its fittings and attachments shall be examined by an appointed examiner within twenty-six months after the date on which the last certificate of fitness issued in respect of the steam receiver or air receiver was issued.

28. (1) Save as provided in subsection (2), every steam container Examination shall be examined by a boiler inspector, in order to ensure that the outlet of steam therefrom is open and free from obstruction, whenever the boiler that supplies steam thereto is examined in accordance with this Ordinance.

(2) Every steam container shall be examined by a boiler inspector for the like purpose before it is put into use.

containers.

29. (1) Every new fuc) burning installation shall be examined Examination by an appointed examiner before it is put into use.

of new fuel burning in-

and beaut

(2) Every new heater fitted in a fuel burning installation shall, stallations before it is put into use, be subjected by an appointed examiner to an fitted therein. bydraulic test, which shall be to not less than twice the maximum etc. pressure to which the heater may be subjected when it is being used.

(3) (a) Every pipe that is used for conveying fuel from a pump

or gravity tank to the burners in a fuel buning installation and every fitting connected with any such pipe shall be tested by an appointed examiner—

(i) in the case of a new such pipe, after the pipe has been jointed and before it is put into use; and

(ii) in the case of any such pipe, within seven days after the Principal Surveyor sa requires.

(b) Every such test shall be to-

(1) twice the maximum pressure to which the fuel system is or will be subjected under normal working conditions; or

(ii) the pressure specified in the current British Standard Specification.

30. Where--

Sicam or to be water pipes hydraulically

(a) any pipe that conveys or will or may convey steam or water

under pressure to or from a boiler, steam receiver or steam container is renewed or is added to a boiler, steam receiver tested in or steam container; or

(6) extensive repairs or alterations are carried out to any such pipe

or to any system of such pipes.

the pipe or pipes shall, before being subjected or again subjected, as the case may be, to steam pressure or water pressure, be subjected by a boiler inspector to an hydraulic test.

certain casca