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ALKALI, &C. WORKS REGULATION ACT 1906 - SECT 12



12.(1) For the purpose of the execution of this Act, an inspector may at all
reasonable times by day and night, without giving previous notice, but so as
not to interrupt the process of the manufacture,

(a)enter and inspect any work to which, in the opinion of the Local Government
Board, any of the provisions of this Act applies; and

(b)examine any process causing the evolution of any noxious or offensive gas,
and any apparatus for condensing any such gas, or otherwise preventing the
discharge thereof into the atmosphere, or for rendering any such gas harmless
or inoffensive when discharged; and

(c)ascertain the quantity of gas discharged into the atmosphere, condensed or
otherwise dealt with; and

Para.(d) rep. by 1978 NI19 art.87(2) sch.7

(e)apply any such tests and make any such experiments, and generally make all
such inquiries, as seem to him to be necessary or proper for the execution of
his duties under this Act.

(2) The owner of any such work shall, on the demand of the chief inspector,
furnish him within a reasonable time with a sketch plan, to be kept secret, of
those parts of such work in which any process causing the evolution of any
noxious or offensive gas or any process for the condensation of such gas or
for preventing the discharge thereof into the atmosphere, or for rendering any
such gas harmless or inoffensive when discharged, is carried on.

(3) The owner of every such work and his agents shall render to every
inspector all necessary facilities for entry, inspection, examination, and
testing in pursuance of this Act.

(4) Every owner of a work in which such facilities are not afforded to an
inspector as are required by this Act, or in which an inspector is obstructed
in the execution of his duty under this Act, and every person wilfully
obstructing an inspector in the execution of his duty under this Act, shall be
liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not
exceeding [#100].


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