Inspection of Machinery Acts Amendment Act of 1946 (10 Geo Vi No. 30) (Qld)

210 LABOUR. Inspection of Machinery, Etc., Act. 10 GEO. VI. No. 30, LABOUR. (1) InspeGtion of Machinery Ads Amendment Act of 1946 .. 10 Geo. VI. No. 30 (2) Workers' Accommodation Acts Amend- ment Act of 1946 .. 10 Geo. VI. No. 29 10 GEO. VI. An Act to Amend" The InspectionoflVIachinery Acts, N T o H . E 30. 1915 to 1943," in certain particulars. INSPECTION OP MACHINERY AOTS [ASSENTED TO 30TH APRIL, 1946.] AMENDlIENT ACT OF 1946. j JE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, . ) by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : - Short title a.nd con- struction. Collective title. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Inspection of Machinery Acts Amendment Act of 1946," and shall be read as one with *" The Inspection of Machinery Acts, 1915 to 1943," herein referred to as the Principal Act. The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as "The Inspection of Machinery Acts, 1915 to 1946. " Amendments of the Principal Act. oAfmse.4n. dment follow 2 s . : S-ection four of the Principal Act is amended as (a) The definition" Engine" is repealed and the following new definition is inserted in lieu thereof:- " " Engine"-A piece of mechanism used to convert heat or some other form of energy into mechanical work; or a machine for the development or utilisation of power from some source of energy such as coal, gas, oil, compressed air, electricity, or other source; " (b) The definition "Machinery" is amended by repealing the words" electric motor." Amendment 3. (1.) Subsection two of section fourteen of the oh. 14. Principal Act is amended by repealing the word " fifteen" and by inserting the word " sixteen " in lieu thereof. '" 6 G. 5 No. 24 and amending Acts, v. 4, p. 763 et seq.

1946. LABOUR. Inspection of Machinery, Etc., Act. 211 (2.) The provisions of subsection two of the said section fourteen as amended by this section shall come into operation on and from a date to be notified by the Governor in Council by Order in Council published in the Gazette. 4. Schedule 1. to the Principal Act is amended as ~ ~ ~ ~ nt follows :- (a) The words " sixty circular inches " are repealed and the words" sixty-four circular inches" are inserted in lieu thereof. (b) All words from and including the words "On and after the first day of January" to and including the words " cranes and hoists; or" are repealed. n. . 5. Rule sixteen of Schedule to the Principal Act ~ ~ ~ ~ ft IS amended as follows :- (a) A new subrule, 6B, is inserted after subrule 6A, as follows :- " 6B. The grade of certificate required to be held by the person in charge of any steam boiler or boilers, where such person is not also in charge of the feed water pump, shall be determined by the area or areas of the heating surface of such boiler or boilers, and for the purpose of such determination thirty-eight square feet of heating surface shall be considered to be served by one circular inch of steam pump cylinder area." (b) Subrule seven is repealed and the following new subrule seven is inserted in lieu thereof :- "7. (a) An engineer's certificate or a first-class engine driver's certificate shall entitle the holder thereof to have charge of any boiler or boilers to which this Act applies. (b) A second-class engineer's certificate or a second-class engine driver's certificate shall entitle the holder thereof to have charge of any boiler or boilers to which this Act applies the area or aggregate area of the heating surface of which does not exceed nineteen thousand square feet. (c) A third-class engine driver's certificate shall entitle the holder thereof to have charge of any boiler or boilers to which this Act applies the area or aggregate area of heating surface of which does not exceed five thousand seven hundred square feet. (d) The number of boilers that one certificated person may safely have charge of shall, subject to this subrule, be determined by the Chief Inspector."