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(6) Every steam boiler and all its fittings and
attachments shall be properly maintained.

(7) Every steam boiler and all its fittings and
attachments shall be thoroughly examined by a competent
person at least once in every period of twelve months,
and also after any extensive repairs.

(8) A report of the result of every such examination
in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed
particulars (including the maximum permissible working
pressure) shall, as soon as practicable and in any case
within twenty-one days of the completion of the examina-
tion, be entered in or attached to the general register, and
the report shall be signed by the person making the
‘xamination,

(9) No steam boiler which has previously been used
shall be taken into use again until it has been examined
and reported on in accordance with the last two foregoing
subsections; and no new steam boiler shall be taken into
use unless there has been obtained from the manufacturer
of the boiler, or from a person competent to examine
boilers, a certificate specifying the maximum permissible
working pressure thereof, and stating the nature of the
tests to which the boiler and fittings have been submitted,
and the certificate is kept available for inspection, and
the boiler is so marked as to enable it to be identified as
the boiler to which the certificate relates; and no new
steam boiler shall be put into use until it has also been
hydraulically tested on the site by a competent person
as aforesaid to at least one and a half times the maximum
permissible working pressure, and the date of the test
and the pressure applied shall be entered in the certificate
which shall be signed by the person making the test:

Provided that the provisions of this subsection relating
to steam boilers which have previously been used shall
not apply to any such boiler used intermittently by the
same owner or hirer except on the first occasion when the
said owner or hirer takes the boiler into use.

(10) Where the report of any examination under this
section specifies conditions for securing the safe working
of a steam boiler, the boiler shall not be used except in
accordance with those conditions.

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