Singapore legislation
Clause 18
Clause 18
Repeal and re-enactment of section 40, and new section 40A
Section 40 of the Factories Act is repealed and the following sections substituted therefor:“Refrigerating plant pressure receivers40.—
No refrigerating plant pressure receiver shall be taken into use in any factory unless —
an application containing the particulars set out in the Eighth Schedule is made to the Chief Inspector who may upon receipt of the application assign an authorised boiler inspector to carry out such examination and test on the receiver as the Chief Inspector may consider necessary;
a report of the examination and test, specifying the safe working pressure of the receiver and stating the nature of the tests to which the receiver and its fittings have been submitted, issued by the authorised boiler inspector has been obtained and is kept available for inspection; and
the receiver is so marked as to enable it to be identified as the receiver to which the report refers.(2) Subsection (15) of section 36 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to a refrigerating plant pressure receiver as it applies to a steam boiler and the reference to steam boiler in that subsection shall be read as a reference to refrigerating plant pressure receiver.Exemption from liability40A. Neither the Government nor any inspector or authorised boiler inspector shall be liable for any damage done to any pressure vessel and its fittings in the course of any test carried out under section 36, 37, 38, 39 or 40.”.