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Gas. See the (English) Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.'By s. 161 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (see also (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 23), any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas or other means of lighting their district, and provide lamps and other materials for such lighting; or where there is not any company or person authorized by Parliament to supply gas, may themselves undertake to supply gas to their district or such part of it as is not within the limits of supply of any such company or person. by s. 162, an urban authority for the purpose of supplying gas to their district may (with the sanction of the Board of Trade) buy, and the directors of any gas company (duly authorized as required by the Act) may sell and transfer their undertaking to such authority, on agreed terms.Originally gas was supplied to a prescribed illumi-nating standard. Later, when t...
Gas, gasworks
Gas, gasworks, the word 'gas' in the entry will take colour from the other word 'gasworks'. In Ballantine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edn., 1969 'gasworks' is defined as 'a plant for the manufacture of artificial gas'. Similarly in Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary, it is defined as 'an establishment in which gas for heating and lighting is manufactured'. In www. freedictionary.com 'gasworks' is explained as 'a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and appurtenances; a place where gas is generated'. Special Reference No (1 of 2001). In Re (2004) 4 SCC 489 (508)....
Liquefied natural gas terminal
Liquefied natural gas terminal, means the facilities and infrastructure required to--(i) receive liquefied natural gas,(ii) store liquefied natural gas,(iii) enable regasification of liquefied natural gas, and(iv) transport regasified liquefied natural gas till the outside boundaries of the facility. Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]...
Manufacture of gas
Manufacture of gas, means filling of a cylinder with any compressed gas and also includes transfer of compressed gas from one cylinder to any other cylinder [Gas Cylinders Rules, 2004, R. 2(xxxii)]...
Permanent gas
Permanent gas, means a gas whose critical temperature is below -10'C that is to say a gas which cannot be liquefied under any pressure at a temperature above -10'C. [Gas Cylinders Rules, 2004, R. 2(xxxiv)]...
Liquefiable gas
Liquefiable gas, means as gas that may be liquefied by pressure at-10'C but will be completely vaporised when in equilibrium with normal atmospheric pressure (760 mm Hg) at 17.5' which value shall be increased to 30'C for toxic gases. [Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004, R. 2(xxix)]...
Oxidizing gas
Oxidizing gas, means a gas which gives up oxygen readily or removes hydrogen from a compound or attract negative electrons [Gas Cylinder Rule 2004, R. 2(xxxiii)]...
Poisonous (toxic) gas
Poisonous (toxic) gas, a gas which has a maximum allowable concentrative in air for human respira-tion not exceeding 100 mg/m3 at 15'C and 1 kgf/cm2 absolute pressure [Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004, Rule 2(xxxv)]...
Working pressure for permanent gas
Working pressure for permanent gas, means the internal pressure of the gas in the cylinder at a temperature of 15'C. [Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004, R. 2(xlii)]...
Gas burner
The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices...
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