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(3) Any person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) shall be liable-

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine of five thousand dollars and

to imprisonment for two years; and

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of ten thousand dollars

and to imprisonment for five years.

(4) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Attorney General.

Liability of 57. Where a person by whom an offence under this Ordinance has directors, etc. been committed is a company and it is proved that the offence was where offence committed with the consent or connivance of a director or other officer by company, concerned in the management of the company, the director or other

officer shall be guilty of the like offence,

committed

Approval of pressure vessels.

Portable gea generators.

PART VIII.

SUPPLEMENTARY AND MUSCELLANEOUS.

58. (1) Every application to the Principal Surveyor for his approval of a pressure vessel or for his approval of a type or brand of pressure vessel shall be in writing.

(2) For the purpose of his consideration of any such application. the Principal Surveyor may require the person by or on behalf of whom the application was made to supply him with such particulars (including plans and drawings) as he specifies.

(3) The Principal Surveyor may refuse to approve a pressure vessel or a type or brand of pressure vessel if-

(a) the person by or on behalf of whom the application for approval was made refuses or fails to supply him with any particulars that he has required under subsection (2);

(b) the pressure vessel does not comply with the current British

Standard Specification.

(4) Whenever the Principal Surveyor approves a type or brand of pressure vessel, a notification thereof shall be published in the Gazette.

59. (1) The Principal Surveyor may, upon application in writing by any person, permit that person to use and operate a portable gas generator.

(2) The grant by the Principal Surveyor under subsection (1) of his permission to use and operate a portable gas generator shall be subject to such conditions as to the operation, maintenance, inspection or otherwise of the portable gas generator as the Principal Surveyor considers necessary.

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(3) In the event of a contravention of any such condition, the Principal Surveyor may revoke his permission to use and operate the portable gas generator.

60. The owner of a boiler or steam receiver shall, not later than the Return as to 30th day of Apríl in each year, send to the Registrar a notice in the competent prescribed form of the names of the competent persons in his employ- ment on the 31st day of March in that year,

persons.

61. Whenever an appointed examiner is about to examine any Owner of boiler or pressure receiver, other than a pressure vessel, far the purposes of this Ordinance, the owner of the boiler or pressure receiver shall latest certi- deliver to such examiner the latest certificate of fitness issued in respect thereof.

boiler, etc.

to deliver

ficate of

Gitness to cxaminer before next examination.

62. Save as otherwise provided

Certificate

of fitness to

(a) the owner of a boiler or pressure receiver, other than a boiler be kept in

or pressure receiver that is so designed as to be transportable, premises at

which boller and is transported, from one place to another, shall keep the

or pressure latest certificate of fitness issued in respect of the boiler or receiver in pressure receiver, or a copy thereof, at the premises or place at which it was which the boiler or pressure receiver is installed: and

(b) the owner of a steam container sball keep the report made after the last examination of the steam container for the purposes of this Ordinance, or a copy of that report, at the premises or place at which the steam container is installed.

63. (1) Where-

respect of

issped is installed.

Provisions as to nouifica-

(a) an accident occurs in or to a boiler or pressure receiver or its tion of

auxiliary equipment; or

Accidcats

and defects.

and pressure

(b) the owner of a boiler or pressure receiver becomes aware of in boilers

any defect therein or in its auxiliary equipment that is likely to receivers, cause danger to life or damage to property,

the owner of the boiler or pressure receiver shall forthwith cause the use and operation thereof to be stopped and shall, as soon as practicable and in any event within twenty-four hours, notify the Principal Surveyor of the accident or defect, as the case may be, and, where applicable. shall, at the same time, send to the Principal Surveyor the latest certificate of fitness issued in respect of the boiler or pressure receiver.

(2) Every such notice shall include the following particulars— (a) the address or place at which the boiler or pressure receiver is

installed: