Section 32: Steam receivers and steam containers.

(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.
(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.
(c) a correct steam pressure gauge, which shall indicate the pressure of steam in the receiver in kilogram per square centimetre;
(d) a suitable stop-valve; and
(e) except where only one team receiver is in use, a plate bearing a distinctive number shall be easily visible.
(3) The safety valve and pressure gauge referred to in subsection (2) of this section 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.
(4) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) of this section, other than paragraph (e) of subsection (2), 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 purposes of the said provisions, except paragraphs (d) and (e), any other set of receivers applied 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.
(5) 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, at least once in every period of 26 months.
(6) A report, signed by the person making the 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 a certified true copy of the report shall be filed with the Director of Factories.
(7) 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 subsections (5) and (6) of this section.
(8) No new steam receiver shall be taken into use in any factory unless-
(a) there has been obtained from the manufacturer of the steam receiver or from an authorised boiler inspector, a certificate specifying the maximum permissible working pressure of the steam receiver and stating the nature of the tests to which the steam receiver and fittings have been submitted;
(b) the steam receiver is so marked as to enable it to be identified as the steam receiver to which the certificate so obtained relates; and
(c) the certificate so obtained is kept available for inspection and a certified true copy thereof is forthwith sent to the Director of Factories.
(9) Every steam container shall be so maintained as to secure that the outlet is at all times kept open and free from obstruction.
(10) In this section-
"authorised boiler inspector" means any person (whether or not an officer in the civil service of the Federation or of any State) who is authorised by the Director of Factories, by certificate in writing, to carry out examinations of steam receivers in accordance with and for the purposes of this section and issue the certificate referred to in subsection (8) (a) of this section;
"maximum permissible working pressure" has the same meaning as in section 31 of this Act;
"safe working pressure" means, in the case of a new steam receiver, that specified in the certificate referred to in subsection (8) (a) 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;
"steam container" means any vessel (other than a steam pipe or coil) constructed with a permanent outlet into the atmosphere or into a space where the pressure does not exceed atmospheric pressure and through which steam is passed at atmospheric pressure or at approximately that pressure, for the purpose of heating, oiling, drying, evaporating, or other similar purpose;
"steam receiver" means any vessel or apparatus (other than a steam boiler, steam container, a steam pipe or coil or a part of a prime mover) used for containing steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.