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Reg.1 Short Title, Extent, Application and Commencement
Reg.2 Definitions
Reg.3 General Requirements, Applications of Standard Conditions and Expectations thereto
Reg.3A Inspection of Boiler to comply into any foreign code
Reg.4 Standard Requirements-Material, Construction, Inspecting Authority's Certificates and Maker's Stamp
Reg.4A Application for Recognition
Reg.4B Scrutiny of applications by the Evaluation Committee
Reg.4C Recognition of a firm as Competent Authority, Inspecting Authorities, etc.
Reg.4D Validity of Certificate of Recognition
Reg.4E Renewal of Certificate of Recognition
Reg.4F Application for registration of existing competent authority
Reg.4G Appeal
Reg.4H Function of Evaluation committee
Reg.5 Modification of Formulae
Reg.5A Material not fully identified
Reg.6 Standard Specifications for Materials
Reg.7 Boiler Shells not in Accordance with Standard Conditions
Reg.8 Use of Welding
Reg.9 Process of manufacture
Reg.10 Chemical Analysis
Reg.11 Freedom from defects, etc
Reg.12 Rolling Margin
Reg.13 Testing and Inspecting.
Reg.13A Designate steel
Reg.14 Selection of test pieces
Reg.15 Tensile Test pieces
Reg.16 Tensile tests
Reg.17 Number of Tensile Tests
Reg.18 Dump Tests
Reg.19 Bend Tests
Reg.20 Number of Bend Tests
Reg.21 Manufactured Rivets
Reg.22 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.23 Branding
Reg.24 Defacing of rejected material
Reg.25 Facilities for inspection
Reg.26 Steel not produced where rolled
Reg.27 Maker’s Certificate
Reg.28 Rivet Bars
Reg.29 Manufactured Rivets Tests
Reg.30 Stay Bars
Reg.31 Stay Bars - Bend Tests
Reg.32 Special Iron for Screw Stays for Fire-boxes and Combustion Chambers
Reg.33 Plates
Reg.34 Stay and Rivet bars
Reg.35-1 Copper Tubes
Reg.35-2 Brass Tubes
Reg.35-3 Carbon steel tubes
Reg.36 Material process
Reg.37 Selection of Tubes for Test
Reg.38 Tensile and Hardness Tests
Reg.39 Flattening Test
Reg.40 Expanding or flaring test
Reg.41 Additional test before rejection
Reg.42 Hydraulic Test
Reg.43 Material
Reg.44 Tensile, Bend and Flattening tests
Reg.45 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.46 Hydraulic Test
Reg.47 General
Reg.48 Material
Reg.49A Tensile and Hardness Tests
Reg.49B Flattening Test
Reg.49C Expanding  or flaring test
Reg.50 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.51 Hydraulic test.
Reg.52 General
Reg.53A Material
Reg.53B Heat treatment
Reg.53C Workmanship and tolerance
Reg.53D Selection of Tubes for testing
Reg.54A Tensile Test
Reg.54B Bend Test
Reg.54C Flattening Test
Reg.55 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.56 Hydraulic Test
Reg.57 General
Reg.58 Material
Reg.59 Flattening & Flaring test
Reg.60 Tensile Test
Reg.61 Hydraulic test
Reg.62 Test specimens
Reg.63 Number of tests
Reg.63A Material
Reg.73 Scope
Reg.74 Process of manufacture
Reg.75 Freedom from all rectification of defects
Reg.76 Number of tests
Reg.77 Tensile Test
Reg.78 Bend tests
Reg.79 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.80 Procedure for Welding
Reg.81 Forged or rolled pressure parts
Reg.82 Selection of test pieces
Reg.83 Tensile strength
Reg.84 Bend Tests
Reg.85 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.86 General grey iron casting (Grade A)
Reg.87 Provision of test bars
Reg.88 Dimension of test bars
Reg.89 Mechanical test
Reg.90 Transverse test
Reg.91 Tensile test
Reg.92 Number of transverse and tensile tests
Reg.93 Additional Tests
Reg.94 General requirements
Reg.95 Requirements for Normal Penetration Electrodes
Reg.96 Requirements for Deep Penetration Butt-Welding Electrodes
Reg.97 Requirements for Deep Penetration Fillet Welding Electrodes
Reg.98 Periodic Check Test
Reg.98A Filler rods for gas welding of steel
Reg.99 Preparation of Plates
Reg.100 Normalizing of certain steel plates
Reg.101 Minimum thickness of Plates
Reg.102 Cylindrical Shells
Reg.103 Position of Longitudinal Seams
Reg.104 Circumferential and End Seams
Reg.105 Angle Rings
Reg.106 Thickness of Shell Angle Rings
Reg.107 Welded Shell Plates
Reg.108 Longitudinal Seams
Reg.109 Butt Straps
Reg.110 Thinning of Butt Straps
Reg.111 Alternative Construction
Reg.112 Local Welding of Butt Seams
Reg.113 Flat End Plates
Reg.114 Strengthening of Flat End Plate at Manhole
Reg.115 End Plates in steam spaces
Reg.116 Hemispherical Crowns
Reg.117 Dished End and Crown Plates
Reg.118 Tube Plates
Reg.119 Parts of flat tube plates within the tube nests
Reg.120 Flanging of End Plates
Reg.121 Furnaces in general
Reg.122 Furnaces of Horizontal boilers
Reg.123 Furnaces of Vertical Boilers
Reg.124 Longitudinal Seams
Reg.125 Fusion Welded Longitudinal Seams
Reg.126 Furnace Crown
Reg.127 Cross Tubes
Reg.128 Uptakes
Reg.129 Loco Type Fireboxes
Reg.129A Welded Joints in Copper Fire Boxes
Reg.130 Bar Stays
Reg.131 Longitudinal Stays
Reg.132 Nuts and Washers for Stays
Reg.133 Jointed Stays
Reg.134 Diagonal Bar or Rod Stays
Reg.135 Screwed Stays
Reg.136 Axial drilling
Reg.137 Stay Nuts
Reg.138 Spacing of End Stays – Allowance for curves, etc.
Reg.139 Girder Stays for Firebox and Combustion Chamber Crowns
Reg.140 Gusset Stays
Reg.141 Breathing Space
Reg.142 Gussets Angles
Reg.143 Load on Gusset Stay
Reg.144 Gusset Riveting
Reg.145 Steel and Wrought Iron Tubes
Reg.146 Fitting of Plain Tubes
Reg.147 Screw Threads of Stay Tubes
Reg.148 Stay Tubes
Reg.149 Thickened ends of Stay Tubes
Reg.150 Load on Stay Tubes
Reg.151 Steel Tubes
Reg.152 Attachment of Steel Tubes
Reg.153 Copper Tubes
Reg.154 Headers, Mud Boxes, etc., of Water Tube Boilers
Reg.155 Stand Pipes and Pads
Reg.156 Design of stand pipes
Reg.157 Pressed Plate Saddles
Reg.158 Seating for Mountings
Reg.159 Attachment of Mountings
Reg.160 Insufficient thickness of End Plates
Reg.161 Attachment of Water and Pressure Gauges
Reg.162 Mountings on Flat Plates
Reg.163 Bolts and Nuts
Reg.164 Access
Reg.165 Compensating Rings and Frames for Openings in Shells
Reg.166 Doors and Cross Bars
Reg.167 Raised Manhole Frames and Cover Plates
Reg.168 Position of Manhole in Shell
Reg.169 Compensation Rings to Manholes
Reg.170 Compensation for cutting large holes in Shell Type Boilers
Reg.171 Rivets securing compensating rings and Stand Pipes
Reg.172A Rivet Heads
Reg.172B Tolerances on shanks
Reg.172C Rivet Holes
Reg.173 Riveting
Reg.174 Fullering and Caulking
Reg.175 Maximum pressure
Reg.176 Formula for Working Pressure of Shell
Reg.177 Methods of calculating the strength of riveted joints
Reg.178 When Pitch exceeds maximum allowed
Reg.179 Butt Straps and spacing of rivets below requirements
Reg.180 Percentage of Welded and Strapped Seams
Reg.181 Percentage to be allowed for Solid Rolled Shells
Reg.182 Thickness of Butt Straps
Reg.183 Maximum Pitch of Rivets in longitudinal joints
Reg.184 Spacing of rows of rivets
Reg.185 Circumferential and End Seams of Water Tube Boilers
Reg.186 Compensation for Manholes and other openings
Reg.187 Uncompensated holes in Water Tube Boilers
Reg.188 Complete hemisphere without stays or other support made of one or more plates and subject to internal pressure
Reg.189 Dished ends subject to internal pressure
Reg.190 Dished ends subject to external pressure
Reg.191 Dished ends of Lancashire and Cornish Type Boilers
Reg.192 Dished shell and firebox crowns
Reg.193 Flat plates supported by solid screwed stays, marginal seams or flanges
Reg.194 Flat plates supported by stays and nuts and large washers or strips or doublings
Reg.195 Flat tube plates
Reg.196 Plates supported by gusset stays
Reg.197 Flat Crown plates of Vertical Boilers
Reg.198 Circular flat ends of drums, etc., supported only at edges
Reg.199 Bar or bulb stiffened end plates and smoke-box tube plates of Loco-type boilers
Reg.200 Flat plate margins
Reg.201 Manholes and Mudholes in Flat Plates
Reg.202 Solid screwed stays
Reg.203 Stresses in steel jointed stays
Reg.204 Stay Tubes
Reg.205 Stays in tension and compression
Reg.206 Measurements of stayed areas in the end plates of Locotype and Vertical Boilers
Reg.207 Gusset Stays
Reg.208 Bolts and Studs
Reg.209 Compression of tube plates
Reg.210 Parts to be stayed
Reg.211 Minimum thickness and cross-section
Reg.212 Holding power of plain tubes
Reg.213 Tubes plates, other than ends of vertical boilers forming parts of outer shell
Reg.214 Curved tube plates of water-tube boilers
Reg.215 Efficiency of Ligament
Reg.216 Boiler and Superheater Tubes Subject to Internal Pressure
Reg.217 Headers and Section Boxes of Water Tube Boilers
Reg.218 Boiler Tubes (Smoke) Subject to External Pressure
Reg.219 Brass and Copper Tubes
Reg.220 Plain Furnaces of Horizontal Boilers
Reg.221 Corrugated Furnaces of Horizontal Boilers
Reg.222 Plain Furnaces of Vertical Boilers
Reg.223 Hemispherical Furnaces of Vertical Boilers
Reg.224 Corrugated Fireboxes of Vertical Boilers
Reg.225 Foundations of Vertical Boiler Furnaces
Reg.226 Foundations of Loco-type Boiler Fireboxes
Reg.227 Cross Tubes
Reg.228 Uptakes of Vertical Boilers
Reg.229 Girder stay for firebox crowns
Reg.230 Marshall Type
Reg.231 Garrett Type
Reg.232 Fowler Type
Reg.233 Fusion Welded and Seamless Forged Drums for Water Tube Boilers and Super Heaters
Reg.234 Materials of Construction
Reg.235 Seamless Forged Drums
Reg.236 Chemical Analysis
Reg.237 Freedom from defects
Reg.238 Heat Treatment
Reg.239 Mechanical Tests
Reg.240 A Selection of Test Pieces
Reg.240 B Tensile test pieces
Reg.240 C Tensile test
Reg.240 D Bend test pieces
Reg.240 E Bend Tests
Reg.241 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.242 Discard
Reg.243 Forging
Reg.243 A Tolerance

Reg.244 A

Tubes, Pipes in Boilers, Headers and Steel Castings
Reg.244 B Pipes
Reg.245 Headers
Reg.246 Steel Castings
Reg.247 Fusion Welded Drums
Reg.248 Equipment of Workshop
Reg.249 Constructional details and preparation for welding
Reg.250 Preparation of plates
Reg.251 Cylindrical shells of drums
Reg.252 Method of making welded joints
Reg.253 Type of welded joints
Reg.254 Number of joints
Reg.255 Position of the Tube holes
Reg.256 Circularity of drums
Reg.257 Mechanical test and test plates for fusion welded seams
Reg.258 Selection of Test Pieces*
Reg.259 Tensile Test Pieces
Reg.260 A Tensile Tests
Reg.260 B All-weld Metal
Reg.261 Bend Test Pieces
Reg.262 Bend Tests
Reg.263 Notched-Bar Impact Tests
Reg.264 Additional tests before rejection
Reg.265 A Non-Destructive Tests
Reg.265 B Radiographical Examination
Reg.265 C Magnetic particle flaw detection
Reg.265 D Dye-Penetrant flaw detection
Reg.266 A General
Reg.266 B Longitudinal Seams
Reg.266 C Circumferential Seams
Reg.266 D Removal of Defects
Reg.266 E Examination before Re-welding
Reg.266 F Process used for Repairs
Reg.266 G Radiographical Examination after Repairs
Reg.266 H Specimen Representing Repairs
Reg.266 I Diagram of Welded Repairs
Reg.267 A Heat Treatment
Reg.267 B Heat Treatment
Reg.267 C Heat Treatment
Reg.267 D Heat Treatment
Reg.267 E Heat Treatment
Reg.267 F Heat Treatment
Reg.267 G Heat Treatment
Reg.268 Hydraulic test at makers’ works
Reg.269 Inspection and Testing
Reg.270 Shells
Reg.271 Permissible working stresses for shells of Boiler and Integral Super-heater Drums and Headers
Reg.271 A Permissible working stresses for shells of Boiler and Integral Super-heater Drums and Headers
Reg.271 B Permissible working stresses for shells of Boiler and Integral Super-heater Drums and Headers
Reg.272 Fusion Welded and Seamless Forged Drums for Water Tube Boilers and Super Heaters
Reg.273 Longitudinal Stress
Reg.274 Intermediate Boiler Drum Supports
Reg.275 Shape of Dished End Plate
Reg.276 General
Reg.277 Dished End with Opening
Reg.278 End Plate subject to pressure on the concave side
Reg.279 A Standpipes and Nozzles
Reg.279 B Standpipe and nozzles welded to dished end plates
Reg.279 C Minimum thickness of Flanges
Reg.280 Attachment of Stand blocks and Branch Pipes by Welding
Reg.281 Requisite Mountings, Fittings and Auxiliaries
Reg.281 A Additional requirements for automatic boilers only
Reg.282 A General Requirements
Reg.282 B Limits of cast Iron
Reg.282 C Limits of copper alloy
Reg.283 Method Of Construction
Reg.284 Packing of Cocks
Reg.285 Covers and Spindles
Reg.286 Direction of Operation
Reg.287 Moving Parts
Reg.288 Flanges
Reg.289 Valve Seatings
Reg.290 Chests etc., in General
Reg.291 Special Requrements
Reg.292 Definition

Reg.293

Minimum Aggregate Area
Reg.294 Over pressure of Safety Valves
Reg.295 Pressure Drop
Reg.296 Attachment to Boiler
Reg.297 Opening in Shell
Reg.298 Discharge Passage
Reg.299 Drainage
Reg.300 Moving Parts
Reg.301 Bearings for Levers
Reg.302 Attachments of weights and Springs
Reg.303 Easing Gear
Reg.304 Lift
Reg.305 High and Low water Alarms
Reg.306 Final Settings
Reg.306 A Adjustment of safety valve set pressure
Reg.307 A Springs And Torsion Bars
Reg.307 B Torsion Bars
Reg.308 Dimensions
Reg.309 Determination of Working Pressure
Reg.310 Test
Reg.311 Extension Springs
Reg.312 Number of Effective Coils
Reg.313 Spacing of Coils
Reg.314 Finishing of Ends
Reg.315 Lever Valves
Reg.316 Steam Stop Valve
Reg.317 Blow-Down Cock Or Valve And Pipes
Reg.318 Blow-down Mountings
Reg.319 Blow-down Valve or Cock
Reg.320 Water Gauges
Reg.321 Drains
Reg.322 Protectors
Reg.323 Glass size
Reg.324 Safety Devices
Reg.325 Gauge columns
Reg.326 Isolating Cocks
Reg.327 Pressure Gauges
Reg.328 Connections
Reg.329 Gauge Cocks
Reg.330 Test Connections-Inspector’s Pressure Gauge Attachment
Reg.331 Fusible Plugs
Reg.332 Type
Reg.333 Material
Reg.334 Attachment to Boiler
Reg.335 Feed Valves
Reg.336 Operating position
Reg.336 A Requirements as to feed apparatus in certain cases
Reg.337 Material and Construction
Reg.338 Boiler and Super Heater Tubes, Headers and other Pressure Parts Tubes
Reg.339 Materials and Construction
Reg.340 Rectangular Headers Symmetrical in Form
Reg.341 Headers Irregular in Form
Reg.342 (a) Cylindrical Headers
Reg.342 (b) End Attachments
Reg.343 Pipes
Reg.344 Material
Reg.345 Condition of Pipes
Reg.346 Mechanical Tests
Reg.347 (a) Flattening test (for pipes up to and including 102 mm. (4 in.) Nominal bore)
Reg.347 (b) Cold bend test (for pipes over 102 mm. (4in.) Nominal bore)
Reg.347 (c) Bend test on the weld
Reg.347 (d) Additional test
Reg.347 (e) Tensile test
Reg.347 (f) Steam-Pipes and Fittings
Reg.348 Method of manufacture, Heat treatment and Marking
Reg.349 Steam-Pipes and Fittings
Reg.350 Steel Pipes
Reg.351 Cast Steel Pipes
Reg.352 Copper Pipes
Reg.353 A Flanges
Reg.353 B Flanges of Alloy Steel Pipes
Reg.353 C Non-Ferrous Flanges
Reg.354 Screwed on Flanges
Reg.355 Loose Flanges
Reg.356 Riveted on Flanges
Reg.357 Welded on flanges
Reg.357 C Heat treatment after welding
Reg.358 Flanges of copper pipes
Reg.359 Standard Flanges
Reg.360 Joints
Reg.361 Wrought Bends
Reg.361 A Butt-welding fittings
Reg.362 A Branches, Bosses and Drain pockets
Reg.362 B External reinforcement
Reg.362 C Thickness where no external reinforcement is provided
Reg.363 Blow–down pipes
Reg.364 Valves Chests
Reg.365 A Steam Receivers, Separators, Catch Waters, Accumulators and Similar Vessels
Reg.365 B Construction and Workmanship
Reg.365 C Access to shells
Reg.365 D Compensating Rings to Opening and Doors
Reg.365 E Branches and other Connections
Reg.365 F Shell Joints
Reg.366 Determination of Working Pressure
Reg.366 B End Plates
Reg.366 C Branches
Reg.366 D Inspection during construction
Reg.367 Steel Screwed and Socketed Joints and Mountings of Steel
Reg.368 Bronze Screwed and Socketed joints and mountings and fittings of bronze
Reg.369 Reducing Valve
Reg.370 Flexibility
Reg.371 Pipe work supports
Reg.372 Drainage
Reg.373 Freedom from rust and other foreign matter
Reg.374 Steam-Pipes and Fittings
Reg.375 Regulations for the Registration of Boilers and Inspection of Boilers and Steam-Pipes
Reg.376 Preparation for Inspection
Reg.377 Hydraulic test of boilers for registration
Reg.378 Preparation for hydraulic tests
Reg.379 Procedure of hydraulic tests
Reg.380 Steam tests
Reg.381