FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 37 Air receivers.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 37

Air receivers.

37.(1) Every air receiver

(a)shall have marked on it so as to be plainly visible the safe working
pressure; and

(b)if it is connected with an air compressing plant, shall either be so
constructed as to withstand with safety the maximum pressure that can be
obtained in the compressor, or be fitted with a suitable reducing valve or
other suitable appliance to prevent the safe working pressure of the receiver
being exceeded; and

(c)shall be fitted with a suitable safety valve so adjusted as to permit the
air to escape as soon as the safe working pressure is exceeded; and

(d)shall be fitted with a correct pressure gauge indicating the pressure in
the receiver ...; and

(e)shall be fitted with a suitable appliance for draining the receiver; and

(f)shall be provided with a suitable manhole, handhole, or other means which
will allow the interior to be thoroughly cleaned; and

(g)in a case where more than one receiver is in use in the factory, shall bear
a distinguishing mark which shall be easily visible.

(2) For the purposes of the provisions of subsection (1) relating to safety
valves and pressure gauges, any set of air receivers supplied with air through
a single pipe may be treated as one receiver but, where a suitable reducing
valve or other suitable appliance to prevent the safe working pressure being
exceeded is required to be fitted, only if the valve or appliance is fitted on
that pipe.

(3) Every air receiver and its fittings shall be of sound construction and
properly maintained.

(4) Every air receiver shall be thoroughly cleaned and examined at least once
in every period of twenty-six months, except that in the case of a receiver of
solid drawn construction

(a)the person making any such examination may specify in writing a period
exceeding twenty-six months but not exceeding four years within which the next
examination is to be made; and

(b)if it is so constructed that the internal surface cannot be thoroughly
examined, a suitable hydraulic test of the receiver shall be carried out in
lieu of internal examination.

(5) Every such examination and test shall be carried out by a competent
person, and a report of the result of every such examination and test,
containing the prescribed particulars (including particulars of the safe
working pressure) shall be entered in or attached to the general register.

(6) In this section "air receiver" means

(a)any vessel (other than a pipe or coil, or an accessory, fitting or part of
a compressor) for containing compressed air and connected with an air
compressing plant; or

(b)any fixed vessel for containing compressed air or compressed exhaust gases
and used for the purpose of starting an internal combustion engine; or

(c)any fixed or portable vessel (not being part of a spraying pistol) used for
the purpose of spraying by means of compressed air any paint, varnish, lacquer
or similar material; or

(d)any vessel in which oil is stored and from which it is forced by compressed
air;

Exceptions as to steam boilers, steam receivers and containers, and
air receivers.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 37