Cap. 56activeordinance

Boilers and Pressure Vessels Ordinance

鍋爐及壓力容器條例

Full legislation

s.3

Application

(1)
This Ordinance applies to every boiler, pressure vessel and steam container
                other
than—
(a)
a boiler, a pressure vessel or a steam container belonging to the
                        State;
(Amended
54 of 2000 s. 3
)
(b)
a boiler, a pressure vessel or a steam container that is used solely for
                    domestic purposes;
(c)
a boiler, pressure vessel or steam container that is part of the fixed
                    equipment of a vessel or other floating craft, whether or not the vessel or
                    craft is used or intended for use in navigation;
(Replaced
67 of 1978 s. 4
)
(ca)
an air receiver that is used solely for, or that is part of the equipment
                    used solely for, either or both of the following
purposes—
(i)
supplying locomotive power to a vehicle intended or adapted for use on
                        a road, railway or tramway;
(ii)
operating the ancillary equipment of such a vehicle which is used for
                        the carriage of passengers or goods; and
(Added
67 of 1978 s. 4
. Amended
87 of 1988 s. 4
)
(d)
a pressurized fuel container having a maximum storage capacity that does
                    not exceed 4.5 litres of liquid fuel or of fuel vapour.
(Replaced
67 of 1978 s. 4
. Amended
87 of 1988 ss. 4
& 31)
(e)
(Repealed
87 of 1988 s. 4
)
(2)
Parts II, III, IV, V and VI and
sections 49
,
50
,
51
,
61
and
62
do not apply to portable gas
                generators.
(3)
Where a boiler or pressure vessel is, or is intended to be, put into use in
                such circumstances that this Ordinance becomes applicable thereto for the first time
                after having been inapplicable thereto by operation of subsection (1), the
                provisions of this Ordinance relating to new boilers or pressure vessels shall apply
                to that boiler or pressure vessel.
(Added
67 of 1978 s. 4
. Amended
87 of 1988 s. 34
)