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1988 Ed.]

Boilers and Pressure Vessels

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(iii) one other person who has such qualifications as the Authority considers suitable and who is not a public officer or a boiler inspector.

(b) The magistrate or legal officer, as the case may be, shall be the

chairman of a Board of Inquiry.

(3) For the purposes of a preliminary inquiry, an authorized officer shall have the following powers- (Amended 18 of 1982 s. 4; 87 of 1988 s. 8)

(a) to enter and inspect any premises the entry or inspection of which

appears to him to be necessary;

(b) to inspect and examine the boiler or pressure vessel and its auxiliary

equipment;

(c) to require the production of any document or thing in the possession

of any person; and

(d) to require any person to answer such inquiries as he considers it

necessary to make.

(4) (a) For the purpose of its inquiry, a Board of Inquiry shall have the

following powers-

(i) to hear evidence on oath or otherwise;

(ii) to summon any person to attend any sitting of the Board to give evidence or to produce any document or thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce such document or thing, subject to all just exceptions;

(iii) to enter and inspect any premises the entry or inspection of which appears to it to be necessary; and

(iv) to inspect and examine the boiler or pressure vessel and its auxiliary equipment.

(b) A witness summons shall be in such form as the chairman of the Board

of Inquiry directs and shall be signed by him.

(5) The report on a preliminary inquiry may, save where a Board of Inquiry has been, or is to be, appointed, be made public in such manner as the authorized officer thinks fit, and the report of a Board of Inquiry shall be made public in such manner as the Authority directs. (Amended 87 of 1988 s. 8)

(Amended 87 of 1988 ss. 33 & 36)

Power of Authority to exempt individual boilers or pressure vessels from provisions of Ordinance

9. (1) An authorized officer may, upon application in writing in that behalf, exempt from any of the provisions of this Ordinance a boiler or pressure vessel to which he is satisfied that such provision cannot reasonably be applied.

(2) Any such exemption shall be subject to such conditions as the authorized officer specifies and may be withdrawn at any time.

(3) (Repealed 87 of 1988 s. 9)

(Amended 87 of 1988 ss. 9 & 33)

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