Inspection of Machinery Act Amendment Act 1953 (WA)

INSPECTION OF MACHINERY.

2' Elizabeth II., No. XXXIII.

No. 33 of 1953.

AN ACT to amend the Inspection of Machinery Act,

1921-1951.

[Assented to 18th December, 1953.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Inspection and citation

of Machinery Act Amendment Act, 1953.

(2) In this Act the Inspection of Machinery Act,

1921-1951,

No. 33.] Inspection of Machinery. [1953.

Approved for

reprint 30th	Act No. 11 of 1922 as reprinted with amendments
September,
1952.	to and including Act No. 20 of 1951 incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1921-1953.

S. 2

amended. 2. Section two of the principal Act is amended

by adding

(a)	after the word, "purpose" in line five of the interpretation, "machinery" the words, "and includes a crane driven by hand or animal power used for raising or lowering a load exceeding one ton";
(b)	after the word, "not" in line six of the interpretation the words, "except as pro- vided herein".

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amended. 3. The following paragraph is added to subsec-

tion (3) of section fifty-three of the principal Act:

(h) to any crane driven by hand or animal power used for raising or lowering a load exceeding one ton.

Second

S hdule 4. The Second Schedule to the principal Act is

amended.

repealed and re-enacted as follows:—

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Machinery Subject to this Act.

s.14. All machinery, except the machinery referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Schedule, which is worked by steam, water, electricity, gas, oil, com- pressed air or by any other power, including a crane driven by hand or animal power used for raising or lowering a load exceeding one ton

(a)	machinery specifically exempted by this Act;
(b)	machinery driven by hand, treadle, wind, or animal power, other than a crane of the type specifically referred to in this Schedule.