1964_BOILERS_AND_PRESSUER_VESSELS_ORDINANCE — Page 26

1988 Ed.]

Boilers and Pressure Vessels

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PART V

PROVISIONS AS TO PREPARATION FOR, PROCEDURE ON, AND METHOD OF, EXAMINATION OF BOILERS, STEAM RECEIVERS AND AIR RECEIVERS, AND AS TO PRESSURE ACCUMULATION TESTS AND HYDRAULIC TESTS

Preparation of boilers, etc. for examination

37. (1) Whenever, for the purposes of this Ordinance, a boiler is about to be examined when it is cold, the owner thereof shall cause the boiler to be prepared for the examination in the following manner-

(a) the boiler shall be empty and every part thereof thoroughly clean;

(b) the boiler shall be sufficiently cool to allow the person carrying out the examination to carry out the same in safety and without inconvenience;

(c) all mountings shall be opened up and valves and cocks ground in; and

(d) in the case of boilers other than watertube boilers, all fire bars, bearers, front plates, bridges, arches, manhole and handhole doors, cleaning plugs and other fittings shall, unless such part does not form an integral part of the boiler and will not interfere in any way with the examination, be removed; or

(e) in the case of watertube boilers, the covers of all openings in headers, muddrums, steam and water drums, manholes and handholes shall be removed.

(2) Whenever, for the purposes of this Ordinance, a steam receiver is about to be examined when it is cold or an air receiver is about to be examined when it is not under pressure, the owner thereof shall cause the steam receiver or the air receiver, as the case may be, to be prepared for the examination so that, so far as the construction thereof permits, all parts, both internal and external, and all fittings are thoroughly clean and accessible for examination.

Procedure on, and method of, examination of boilers

38. (1) The following provisions apply to the examination of a boiler for the purposes of section 27 or 32 (Amended 67 of 1978 s. 16)

(a) the boiler shall first be thoroughly examined when it is cold and has been prepared for examination in the manner prescribed in section 37(1);

(b) where, upon the examination in accordance with paragraph (a), the appointed examiner who carried out the same is of opinion that the boiler is in need of immediate repairs in order to maintain it in safe working order, he shall in writing notify the owner of the boiler of the repairs that he considers necessary;

(c) in each of the following cases, the boiler shall next be subjected by an appointed examiner to a hydraulic test-

(i) where any repairs that have been carried out pursuant to a notice given by an appointed examiner in accordance with paragraph (b) are extensive repairs;