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Chains,
ropes,
tackle
cranes,

Means of
escape im

case of fire,

its return to the owner or hirer of the container shall be
kept available for inspection, and the owner or hirer of the
contamer shall be responsible for the observance of the
provisions of this section and of any regulations or orders
made in pursuance thereof and in the event of a contra-
vention thereof shall be guilty of an offence.

(9) No air pressure container shall be worked at
a pressure higher than the safe working pressure, and if
any air pressure container is so worked, the occupier
of the factory or place in which the container is situate or
the owner or hirer of the container, as the case may be,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine
of two hundred and fifty dollars.

(10) The competent) person referred to in sub-
sections (+) and (5) of this section shall not be in the employ
of the occupier of the premises in which the air pressure
container which the competent person examines is situate,
and shall-not be in the employ of the owner or hirer of
the said container.

25. No chain, rope or lifting tackle and no crane or other
lifting machine shall be used otherwise than in accordance
with any regulations or orders which may be made by the
Governor in Council under section 33 of this Ordinance
or any order made by the Governor under section 34 of
this Ordinance.

26. (1) Every factory to which this section applies shall be
certified by the fire authority as being provided with such
means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed
therein as may reasonably be required in the circumstances
of each case and, if any premises with respect to which no
such certificate is in force are used as a factory, the occupier
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction
thereof to a fine of two hundred and forty dollars, and if
the contravention in respect of which he was so convicted
is continued after the conviction, he shall (subject to the
provisions of section 71 of this Ordinance) be guilty of a
further offence and Hable to a fine of twenty-four dollars
for cach day on which the offence was so continued.

It shall be the duty of the fire authority to examine
every such factory and, on being satisfied that the factory