185. Maintenance and repairs of safety lamps and electric torch or lamp.
(1)Every approved safety lamp and electric torch or lamp shall be properly assembled and maintained in good order and if any such lamp or torch is found to be defective or damaged, it shall not be used or issued for use until the defect or damage has been remedied.(2)If the wires of any gauge of a flame safety lamp and electric torch or lamp are broken or burnt away, the gauge shall not be reconditioned for further use.(3)Damaged and defective gauges, glasses or other parts of a safety lamp shall not be kept or stored in the safety lamp-room.(4)No glass of a safety lamp and no bulb of an electric safety lamp shall be replaced except by a glass or bulb of such type as the Chief Inspector may, from time to time specify by notification in the Official Gazette, and no other part of a safety lamp, other than a wick or battery, as the case may be, shall be replaced except by a part manufactured by the manufacturers of the lamp to approved specifications.(5)No repaired part shall be used in a safety lamp:Provided that in the case of an imported safety lamp, a part manufactured indigenously may be used if it is of such design and make as is approved by the Chief Inspector.(6)In every flame safety lamp kept for the purpose of inspection or of testing for or detecting the presence of inflammable gas, no oil other than an oil of a type approved by the Chief Inspector shall be used.(7)No electric safety lamp shall be issued for use unless the covers of the battery and of the headpiece are properly assembled, securely locked and sealed, and the battery is properly charged.(8)No electric safety lamp shall be hung or held by the cable.
