Section 78

In respect of any periodical examination required by this Act or by any regulations made thereunder to be carried out either by an authorised boiler inspector or by an approved person, in the event of that examination not having been done within the specified period by reason of the occupier or owner not having been able to arrange for an authorised boiler inspector or an approved person, as the case may be, to carry out that examination, he shall forthwith notify the Chief Inspector by registered post of the circumstances and shall give particulars of the machinery or plant concerned and of the date of the last examination carried out as required by this Act or by any regulations made thereunder and by whom it was carried out. Thereafter and until 30 days after the Chief Inspector has notified the occupier or owner, as the case may be, of an authorised boiler inspector or an approved person, as the case may be, who has agreed to carry out the examination within the next 30 days, the occupier or owner, as the case may be, shall not be guilty of an offence by reason only of the contravention of the particular provision requiring that examination.[71