Section Text
(1) This Act may be called the Boilers Act, 2025.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference
in any provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force
of that provision.
(3) Save as otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of this Act shall apply to all boilers and boiler
components including boilers and boiler components belonging to the Central Government and the State
Governments.
(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to---
(a) locomotive boilers belonging to or under the control of the railways;
(b) any boiler or boiler components,---
(i) in any vessel propelled wholly or in part by the agency of steam;
(ii) belonging to or under the control of the Army, Navy or Air Force; or
(iii) appertaining to a sterilizer or disinfector used in hospitals or nursing homes, if the boiler
does not exceed one hundred litres in capacity.
1. 1st day of May, 2025, vide notification No. S.O. 1943 (E), dated 30th day of April, 2025, see Gazette of India,
Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (ii).