This encompasses the government's responsibilities for the safety and regulation of land boilers and all classes of power-driven machinery up to 1950, and for winding-engines, steam engines, boilers, lifts, and power cranes thereafter. These responsibilities were set out in the Inspection of Machinery Acts 1874, 1882, 1902, 1928, 1931, and the Boilers, Lifts and Cranes Act, 1950.
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