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CAP. 56]

Boilers and Pressure Vessels

[1988 Ed.

Issue of certificates of fitness

33. (1) Save as otherwise provided, a certificate of fitness in respect of a boiler or pressure vessel shall be issued-

(a) in the case of a boiler, only under the hand of the appointed examiner who examined the boiler when it was under the pressure that will be specified in the certificate of fitness as its maximum permissible working pressure; or

(b) in the case of a pressure vessel, only under the hand of the appointed examiner who examined the pressure vessel when it was under the pressure that will be specified in the certificate of fitness as its maximum permissible working pressure or who carried out the pressure accumulation test.

(2) (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (1) and without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, an appointed examiner may issue a certificate of fitness in respect of a boiler or pressure vessel notwithstanding that every part of the examination in question or every test required by this Ordinance to be carried out during such examination has not been carried out by him if he is satisfied that those parts of the examination in question that have not been carried out by him have been carried out in accordance with this Ordinance and that those tests of the boiler or pressure vessel, as the case may be, or its auxiliary equipment that have not been carried out by him have been carried out in accordance with this Ordinance and that the results thereof were satisfactory.

(b) Where, pursuant to paragraph (a), a certificate of fitness is issued by an appointed examiner who has not carried out the whole of the examination of the boiler or pressure vessel or all of the tests thereof, each appointed examiner by whom a part of the examination was carried out or by whom some of the tests were carried out shall enter in the certificate of fitness particulars as to the part of the examination, or as to the tests, that he carried out.

(3) Where, upon an examination of a boiler or pressure vessel for the purposes of this Ordinance, the appointed examiner-

(a) who has carried out the examination in accordance with this Ordinance and has carried out such tests of the boiler or pressure vessel or its auxiliary equipment as are required by this Ordinance to be carried out; or

(b) who, not having carried out the whole of the examination or not having carried out some or all of the tests of the boiler or pressure vessel or its auxiliary equipment required by this Ordinance to be carried out, has carried out the examination of the boiler or the examination or test of the pressure vessel specified in subsection (1),

is satisfied-

(i) that the boiler or pressure vessel, as the case may be, and, in the case of a boiler or steam receiver, its auxiliary equipment and, in the case of an air receiver, its fittings and attachments are in safe working order or that, subject to the conditions that will be specified in the certificate of fitness...