Boilers Act, 2025
Bare Act · 2025
An Act to provide for the regulation of boilers, safety of life and property of persons from the danger of explosions of steam-boilers and for uniformity in registration and inspection during manufacture, erection and use of boilers in the country and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:---.
- Act number
- 12 of 2025
- Enacted
- 4 April 2025
- Contents
- 45 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Central Boilers Board
Chapter III — Inspection, Certification And Registration
- Section 5 – Chief Inspector, Deputy Chief Inspector and Inspector
- Section 6 – Competent authority to grant welders certificate (preview)
- Section 7 – Conditions precedent for manufacture of boiler and boiler components (preview)
- Section 8 – Inspection during manufacture (preview)
- Section 9 – Inspection during erection (preview)
- Section 10 – Conditions precedent for repairing boiler and boiler components (preview)
- Section 11 – Prohibition of use of unregistered or uncertified boiler (preview)
- Section 12 – Registration (preview)
- Section 13 – Renewal of certificate (preview)
- Section 14 – Provisional order (preview)
- Section 15 – Use of boiler pending grant of certificate (preview)
- Section 16 – Revocation of certificate or provisional order (preview)
- Section 17 – Alteration and renewal of boiler (preview)
- Section 18 – Alteration and renewal of steam-pipe or boiler components (preview)
- Section 19 – Duty of owner at examination (preview)
- Section 20 – Production of certificate and provisional order (preview)
- Section 21 – Transfer of certificate and provisional order (preview)
- Section 22 – Powers of entry of Inspector (preview)
- Section 23 – Report of accident (preview)
Chapter IV — Appeal
- Section 24 – Appeal to Chief Inspector (preview)
- Section 25 – Appeal to Central Government (preview)
- Section 26 – Application for revision of order (preview)
Chapter V — Offences And Penalties
- Section 27 – Minor penalties (preview)
- Section 28 – Penalties for illegal use of boiler (preview)
- Section 29 – Punishment for certain offences (preview)
- Section 30 – Penalty for tampering with register mark (preview)
- Section 31 – Penalty for breach of rules or regulations (preview)
- Section 32 – Recovery of penalties (preview)
- Section 33 – Limitation and previous sanction for prosecution (preview)
- Section 34 – Trial of offences (preview)
- Section 35 – Adjudication of penalties (preview)
- Section 36 – Appeal against orders of adjudicating officer (preview)
Chapter VI — Miscellaneous
- Section 37 – Power of Central Government to give directions (preview)
- Section 38 – Exemptions (preview)
- Section 39 – Power of Central Government to make rules (preview)
- Section 40 – Power of Board to make regulations (preview)
- Section 41 – Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament (preview)
- Section 42 – Power of State Government to make rules (preview)
- Section 43 – Finality of orders (preview)
- Section 44 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 45 – Repeal and savings (preview)