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25. The occupier of and every person employed in and about the factory shall take all due precaution for the prevention of accidents by fire or explosion in the same, and for preventing unauthorised persons having access to the factory, or any part thereof, or to the explosives therein, and shall abstain from any act whatever which tends to cause fire or explosion, and is not reasonably necessary for the purpose of the work in such factory.

26. No fire or light shall, under any circumstances, be taken inside any building forming part of a factory (other than those specified by an Inspector), nor any light except a lantern approved for that purpose by an Inspector, and such lantern shall be so taken only by the foreman. All persons entering the factory, and before passing within the fencing thereof, shall examine their clothes to see that they have no matches or other dangerous articles in their pockets or about their persons, and the occupier shall satisfy himself that such examination is carefully carried out, and that all persons employed in the factory are duly searched from time to time.

27. The keys of all danger buildings in connection with the factory shall remain in charge of a person duly authorised in writing by the occupier, and shall be at any time available if required by an Inspector.

28. The occupier shall cause to be kept a stock-book for each factory-magazine, showing at all times the quantities in store, and showing also the quantities taken in and out, and the dates and times at which the same are taken in and out, and by whom.

29. No broken or defective cases or boxes containing explosives shall be admitted into the magazines, nor shall any explosive be admitted which is not packed in the manner directed in these regulations. Any explosive which may be spilt shall at once be carefully taken up and destroyed.

30. No tools or instruments of any description shall be taken into a danger building for any purpose, nor used outside the magazines for opening or closing the cases of explosives, except those duly approved by an Inspector and provided for that purpose.

31. The gates of the fences and the doors of the magazines shall be kept securely locked, except during inspection, and at such times as explosives are being taken in or removed.

32. On the approach of a thunderstorm the magazines and other danger buildings shall be closed, and every person engaged in and about them shall be withdrawn therefrom.

33. Any safety-fuse or other explosive, the manufacture or storage of which shall be considered to be unattended with danger, may be exempted from the operations of a part or the whole of these regulations relating to manufacture by order of an Inspector.

34. Every occupier of a factory licensed for the manufacture of explosives shall keep a record of the name and address of each person to whom and the date on which he sells such explosive, together with the description of such explosive, and the quantity thereof sold.

35. The person who applies for and to whom a factory license is issued shall be deemed the occupier.

36. A danger building shall be deemed to be every building in which explosive or any ingredient thereof which either by itself is possessed of explosive properties, or which when mixed with any other ingredient or article also present in such building is capable of forming an explosive mixture or an explosive compound, is kept, or present, or in the course of manufacture, or is liable to be, unless specially exempted by the license or by a written order of an Inspector.

37. Factory-magazine shall mean a building for keeping the finished explosive made in the factory, and includes any building for keeping the partly manufactured explosive, or the ingredients of an explosive, which is mentioned in that behalf in the license.

Notwithstanding anything specified in the foregoing regulations, at the discretion of the Minister, and on receipt by him of a report from the Inspector of Explosives that the applicant is a fit and proper person, and that his premises are suitable for such manufacture, a license may be granted to any registered pharmaceutical chemist to manufacture at his usual place of business any quantity of “coloured fire” not exceeding 5 lb. in weight on any one day. The manufacture of such coloured fire shall be permitted only in a part of the premises separate and distinct from any front shop, and in a room where no fire or light is burning. Notice of intention to manufacture shall be sent to the nearest Inspector of Explosives one clear day beforehand.

No registered pharmaceutical chemist licensed as above shall have upon his premises at any one time more than 10 lb. weight of “coloured fire,” which shall only be stored in canisters of stout tinware, each canister to be of such size as shall hold not more than 2 lb. weight. The said premises are to be open to the Inspector of Explosives any working-day between the hours of 8 o’clock a.m. and 8 p.m.

No registered pharmaceutical chemist licensed as above may sell or deliver “coloured fire” to any child under the age of thirteen years, and the sale of coloured fire by any other person than a registered pharmaceutical chemist under these exemption clauses is forbidden.

All “coloured fire” of 1 lb. in weight and over, when sold, shall be in a tin canister with a tight-fitting lid.

PART III.—STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.

Regulations.

1. A magazine for explosives shall not be allowed except on the site and in the manner specified in a license for the same granted under “The Explosives Act, 1882.”

2. In order that the Minister may be in a position to determine upon what conditions he will issue a license for a magazine, all applications to the Minister for licenses for magazines must be accompanied by a draft of the proposed license, and by a plan (drawn to scale) of the proposed magazine and the site thereof (which plan shall be deemed to form part of and to be in these regulations included in the expression “the license”).

3. The draft license shall set forth the conditions which the applicant desires the license should contain, and shall specify such of the following matters as are applicable, namely:—

(a.) The boundaries of the land forming the site of the magazine, and either any belt of land surrounding the site which is to be kept clear, and the buildings and works from which it is to be kept clear, or the distances to be maintained between the magazine or any part thereof, and other buildings or works.

(b.) The situation, character, and construction of all the mounds, buildings, and works on the site of or connected with the magazine, and the distances thereof from each other.

(c.) The place at which each description of work connected with the magazine is to be carried on, and the places in the magazine at which explosives and any ingredients of explosives, and any articles liable to spontaneous ignition, or inflammable, or otherwise dangerous, are to be kept.

(d.) The amount of explosives to be allowed at the same time in any building, or within a limited distance from such building, having regard to the situation and construction of such building, and to the distance thereof from any other building or any work.

(e.) The situation of each building forming part of such magazine in which explosives are to be kept, and the maximum amount of explosives to be kept in each such building.

(f.) Any special conditions or provisions which the applicant may propose by reason of any special circumstances arising from the locality, the situation, or construction of any buildings or works, or otherwise.

4. In forwarding an application for a license, the applicant must also produce evidence to the Minister that the issue of a license will not be contrary to the provisions of any by-law made by the local authority of the district in which it is proposed to establish the magazine.

5. The Minister, after considering the application, will either refuse to issue a license, or will approve of the draft license with or without modification or addition.

6. An application to use a hulk or other floating vessel as a magazine for the storage of explosives shall be made, as far as applicable, in the same manner as an application for a magazine, as hereinbefore directed; and the whole hulk or other floating vessel in or on board which explosives are stored shall be deemed to constitute the magazine, and each cabin, hold, and any part of the same in which explosives are kept, or are liable to be so kept, and every other part which may be specified in that behalf in the license, shall be deemed to be a danger building.

7. On the approval of an application for a license, the applicant shall complete the magazine and the arrangement thereof in accordance with the terms of the proposed license, and to the satisfaction of an Inspector, before the license is actually issued.

8. Neither the magazine nor any part thereof shall be used for any purpose not in accordance with the license.

9. The conditions of the license shall be duly observed, and the keeping, or any work connected with the keeping, of explosives shall not be carried on except in accordance with those conditions. If any breach of such conditions occur, the license will be liable to be immediately cancelled; and a breach of any of the conditions of the license shall be deemed also to be a breach of these regulations.

10. The magazine and every part thereof shall be maintained in accordance with the license; and in the case of a magazine on land no material alteration in the magazine, either by enlarging or adding to the site, or by externally enlarging or adding to any building, or by altering any mound otherwise than by enlargement, or by making any new work, shall be made except by the approval in writing of an Inspector. No alterations or additions on any hulk or other floating vessel shall be allowed except with the approval in writing of an Inspector.

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