This Act may be cited as the Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1931, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1928 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

For the purposes of section seventeen of the principal Act the term “owner” includes (in addition to the persons included in that term by virtue of the definition thereof in section two of that Act) every person who for the time being is in possession of any machinery.

In addition to the matters specified in subsection two of the said section seventeen, a notice under that section may require the owner of any machinery to refrain from selling, hiring, or otherwise disposing of, or parting with the possession of, such machinery until the requirements of the Inspector as specified in such notice have been complied with.

With the exception of section sixteen and of section seventeen (as extended by this Act), nothing in the principal Act shall apply to any machinery, the motive power of which does not exceed six horse-power, used exclusively for farming purposes.