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confectioners and fruit shops," and by adding a paragraph as follows:"The closing time for confectioners and fruit shops shall be not later than eleven o'clock in the evening of every day, and every such shop shall be kept closed for the remainder of the day."

4. All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act, under the supervision of the Clerk of the Parliaments, and a reference to this Act made in the margin.

By Authority: WM. ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth.

AN ACT to provide for the Inspection and
Regulation of Boilers and Machinery.

[Assented to 24th December, 1904.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:--

1. This Act may be cited as the Inspection of Machinery Act, Short title and 1904, and shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by commencement. proclamation.

2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,

"Boiler" means: (a) any boiler or vessel in which or by
means of which steam is generated for working any kind of
machinery, or is used for application to any manufacturing
or other process; but does not include (b) any boiler
used for any process or purpose where a pressure not
exceeding ten pounds per square inch above atmospheric
pressure is required. It includes the setting, and all the
fittings

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fittings and mountings, steam and other pipes, feed-pumps, injectors, and other equipments necessary to maintain the safety of the boiler.

Building" means any manufactory, mill, shop, shed, building,
or place, whether above the ground or underground, in
which any boiler or machinery is erected, or where the
same is kept, used, worked, or in operation.

"District" means any district proclaimed under this Act.
“Inspector" means any person appointed to be an inspector
of machinery under this Act acting within a district for
which he is appointed.

"Machinery" means and includes every shaft, whether upright,
oblique, or horizontal, and every drum, wheel, strap, band,
or pulley by which the motion of the first moving power
is communicated to any machinery; and every machine,
gearing, contrivance, or appliance worked by steam or
water power, or by electricity, gas, compressed air, oil, or
in any other manner by which motive power may be
obtained, except by hand, treadle, wind, or animal power.
Magistrate" means a police magistrate or a resident
magistrate.

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"Minister" means the responsible Minister of the Crown
charged for the time being with the administration of
this Act.

"Owner" means and includes the person being the owner of
any boiler or machinery, as also the hirer, bailee, or
mortgagee in possession thereof, and any engineer, over-
seer, foreman, agent, or person in charge or having the
control or management of any boiler or machinery.
"Premises" includes any house, building, structure, yard, or
place, and any mine, timber area, farm, paddock, field,
road, or place, and any punt, raft, boat, ship, steamship, or
vessel, not exempted from the operation of this Act, in
which a boiler is kept or used, or any machinery is kept,
worked, used, or is in operation.

"Prescribed" means prescribed by this Act and the regula
tions thereunder.

"Regulations" means the regulations made under this Act.

3. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule are hereby repealed and amended to the extent and in manner therein indicated: Provided that

All regulations, orders, and notifications made under the
Steam Boilers Act, 1897, and in force at the time of
the repeal, shall be deemed to have been made under this
Act.

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