41.-(1) Every steam receiver and all its fittings shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength, and free from patent defect, and shall be properly maintained.
(2) Every steam receiver, not so constructed and maintained as to withstand with safety the maximum permissible working pressure of the boiler or the maximum pressure which can be obtained in the pipe connecting the receiver with any other source of supply, shall be fitted with-
(a) a suitable reducing valve or other suitable automatic appliance to prevent the safe working pressure of the receiver being exceeded; and
(b) a suitable safety valve so adjusted as to permit the steam to escape as soon as the safe working pressure is exceeded, or a suitable appliance for cutting off automatically the supply of steam as soon as the safe working pressure is exceeded; and
(c) a correct steam pressure gauge, which shall indicate the pressure of steam in the receiver in pounds per square inch or kilogrammes per square centimetre; and
(d) a suitable stop-valve; and
(e) except where only one steam receiver is in use, a plate bearing a distinctive number which shall be easily visible.
The safety valve and pressure gauge shall be fitted either on the steam receiver or on the supply pipe between the receiver and the reducing valve or other appliance to prevent the safe working pressure being exceeded.
(3) For the purpose of the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, except paragraph (e), any set of receivers supplied with steam through a single pipe and forming part of a single machine may be treated as one receiver, and for the purpose of the said provisions, except paragraphs (d) and (e), and other set of receivers supplied with steam through a single pipe may be treated as one receiver:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any such set of receivers unless the reducing valve or other appliance to prevent the safe working pressure being exceeded is fitted on the said single pipe.
(4) Every steam receiver and all its fittings shall be thoroughly examined by an authorised boiler inspector, so far as the construction of the receiver permits αμέσως προ της εγκαταστάσεως και της διά πρώτην φοράν χρήσεως αυτών, και μετέπειτα, at least once in every period of twenty-six months.
(5) A report of the result of every such examination, in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars (including particulars of the safe working pressure), shall be entered in or attached to the General Register, and the report shall be signed by the person making the examination.
(6) No steam receiver which has previously been used shall be taken into use in any factory for the first time in that factory until it has been examined and reported on in accordance with the last two foregoing subsections; and no new steam receiver shall be taken into use unless there has been obtained from the manufacturer of the receiver, or from an authorised boiler inspector, a certificate specifying the safe working pressure of the receiver, and stating the nature of the tests to which the receiver and fittings have been submitted, and the certificate is kept available for inspection, and the receiver is so marked as to enable it to be identified as the receiver to which the certificate relates.
(7) Any person who, for the purposes of this section, desires that an examination of a steam receiver should be carried out by, and any person who desires to obtain the certificate referred to in subsection (6) of this section from, any authorised boiler inspector who is an officer of the Government shall notify the Chief Inspector accordingly and, on payment by such person of the prescribed fee, the Chief Inspector shall instruct such an authorised boiler inspector to carry out the said examination, or to carry out the necessary tests with a view to the issue of the said certificate, as the case may be.
(8) Every steam container shall be so maintained as to secure that the outlet is at all times kept open and free from obstruction.
(9) In this section-
“authorised boiler inspector” means any person (whether an officer of the Government or not) who is authorised by the Chief Inspector, by certificate in writing, to carry out examinations of steam receivers in accordance with, and for the purposes of, this section and to issue the certificate referred to in subsection (6) of this section;
“maximum permissible working pressure” has the same meaning as in section 40 of this Law;
“safe working pressure” means, in the case of a new steam receiver, that specified in the certificate referred to in subsection (6) of this section, and, in the case of a steam receiver which has been examined in accordance with the provisions of this section, that specified in the report of the last examination.