Clause 17

Section 39 of the Factories Act is amended by deleting subsections (6), (7) and (8) and substituting the following subsections:“(6) Every examination and test referred to in subsections (4) and (7) shall be carried out by an authorised boiler inspector, and a report of the result of every such examination and test, in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars (including particulars of the safe working pressure), shall be prepared in duplicate and signed by the person making the examination.(7) Subsections (11A), (13) and (15) of section 36 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to an air receiver as they apply to a steam boiler and the reference to steam boiler in those subsections shall be read as a reference to air receiver.(8) Section 36(13) as made applicable by subsection (7) shall not apply to any air receiver that has been examined and reported on in accordance with subsection (6) and the owner of the air receiver is not the occupier of the factory to which the air receiver is taken into use.”.