248 Explosives

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #5

CHAPTER 248.

EXPLOSIVES.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

[14th May 1902.] [Commencement 1st January 1903.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Explosives Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Commissioner of Police' includes any police officer authorised by him and in an Out Island the commissioner;

   'explosive' means gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder and any substance which may appear to the Governor to be specially dangerous to life or property by reason of its explosive properties;

   'gunpowder' includes any explosive used for ammunition or cartridges.

3. The Governor may make rules(a) to regulate the mode of storing and the maximum amount of explosive to be kept in any government store, or in any private store for retail purposes;

   (b) to compel the storing of explosives in any store or place that may hereafter be provided or appointed by the Governor and to fix the rates at which explosives shall be stored in such store or place as aforesaid;

   (c) for the purpose of empowering and authorising the police or any other person authorised by the Governor to enter and...