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NO. 7 OF 2006


(b) includes pipes and appliances used in carrying any gas to the place where the gas is to be used;
“inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 7(3) and includes the Commissioner and any Deputy Commissioner;
“lift” includes any lifting appliance or lifting machine used for carrying persons, whether together with goods or otherwise;
“lifting appliance” includes a pulley block, gin wheel, chain block or set of chain blocks;
“lifting gear” includes—
(a) any chain, rope, chain sling, webbing sling, rope sling, ring, hook, shackle, swivel or eyebolt; and
(b) any cage or work platform used for carrying persons while it is suspended from the load line of a crane;
“lifting machine” includes—
(a) any crane, crab, winch, teagle, runway, transporter, piling frame or piling machine; and
(b) any work platform or suspended scaffold capable of being raised or lowered by climbers, winches or other powered device;
“machinery” includes—
(a) any oil engine, gas engine, steam engine, and any other machine in which mechanical movement, either linear or rotated or both, takes place;
(b) any steam boiler, gas cylinder, air receiver, steam receiver, steam container or refrigerating plant pressure receiver;
(c) any appliance for transmission of power by ropes, belts, chains, driving straps or bands or gearing; and
(d) any electrical generator or electrical motor,
but does not include any machinery used solely for the propulsion of vehicles;
“maintain” means maintain in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair;