1448
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 42

(d.) The amount of explosives and ingredients thereof, wholly or partially mixed, to be allowed at the same time in any building or machine, or in any process of the manufacture, or within a limited distance from such building or machine, having regard to the situation and construction of such building, and to the distance thereof from any other building or any works;

(e.) The situation of each factory-magazine, and the maximum amount of explosives to be kept in each factory-magazine;

(f.) The maximum number of persons to be employed in each building in the factory; and

(g.) 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 the nature of any process, 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 factory.

5. The Minister, after examination of the proposal, may reject the application altogether, or may approve of the draft license with or without modification or addition.

6. On the preliminary approval of an application for a license, the applicant shall complete the factory and the arrangements thereof in accordance with the terms of the proposed license, and to the satisfaction of a Government Inspector, before the license is actually issued, and shall pay any fee required under Part II of these regulations to the Collector of Customs.

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

8. The conditions of the license shall be duly observed, and the manufacture or keeping, or any process in or work connected with the manufacture or keeping, of explosives shall not be carried on except under conditions approved by an Inspector; and any breach of the conditions of the license shall be deemed to be a breach of these regulations.

9. The factory and every part thereof shall be maintained in accordance with the license; and no material alteration in the factory, either by enlarging or adding to the site, or by externally enlarging or adding to any building thereon, or by altering any mound otherwise than by enlargement, or by making any new work, shall be made except by permission in writing of the Minister. Any alteration so made and sanctioned by the Minister shall be deemed to be part of the license, and the license shall be construed accordingly.

10. The quantity of any explosive or ingredients that may be placed or stored at any one time in any factory, or in any part thereof, shall not exceed such quantity as may be prescribed in the license.

11. Every factory-magazine shall be used only for the keeping of explosives, and the tools or implements for work connected with the keeping of such explosives.

12. The interior of any danger building or magazine, and the benches, shelves, and fittings therein (other than machinery), shall be so constructed, or so lined or covered, as to prevent the exposure of any iron or steel, or the detaching of any grit, iron, steel, or similar substance in such manner that such iron, steel, or grit, or similar substance may come into contact with the explosives or ingredients thereof in such danger building; and the interior of every such danger building, and the benches, shelves, and fittings therein, shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be kept free from grit and otherwise clean.

13. Every danger building or magazine connected with a factory shall be protected by sufficient lightning-conductors.

14. No charcoal, whether ground or otherwise, or oiled cotton, or oiled rags, or oiled waste, or any articles whatever liable to spontaneous ignition, shall be taken into any danger building except for the purpose of immediate supply and work or immediate use in such building, and upon the cessation of such work or use shall be forthwith removed.

15. There shall be constantly kept affixed to every danger building or magazine, either outside or inside, in such manner as to be easily read, a statement of the quantities of explosives or ingredients allowed to be in the building, and a copy of these regulations, with the addition of the name of the building, or words indicating the purpose for which it is used.

16. Before any repairs are done to or in any room, or in any other part of a danger building, that room or part shall, so far as practicable, be cleaned by the removal therefrom of all explosives, and of any wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof, and by the thorough washing-out of such room or part; and such room or part of the building, after being so cleaned, shall not be deemed to be a danger building within the meaning of these regulations until explosives, or any wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof, are again taken into it.

17. Except after such cleaning, all tools and implements used in any repairs to or in a danger building shall be made only of wood, or copper, or brass, or some soft metal or material, or shall be covered with some safe and suitable material.

18. Due provision shall be made, by the use of suitable working-clothes without pockets, suitable shoes, searching, and otherwise, or by some of such means, for preventing the introduction into any danger building of fire, lucifer matches, or any substance or article likely to cause explosion or fire, and for preventing the introduction of any iron, steel, or grit into any part of a danger building where it would be likely to come into contact with explosives, or the wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof; but this rule shall not prevent the introduction of any artificial light of such construction, position, or character as not to cause any danger of fire or explosion.

19. No person shall smoke in any part of any factory.

20. Every carriage, boat, or other receptacle in which explosives, or any wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof, are conveyed from one building to another in a factory, or from any such building to any place outside of such factory, shall be constructed without any exposed iron or steel in the interior thereof, and shall contain only the explosives and ingredients, and shall be closed or otherwise properly covered over; and the explosives and ingredients shall be so conveyed with all due diligence, and with such precautions and in such manner as will sufficiently guard against any accidental ignition or explosion.

21. No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in or enter any danger building except in the presence and under the supervision of some person of full age.

22. The ingredients in course of manufacture into explosives shall be removed with all due diligence from each danger building so soon as the process connected with those ingredients which is carried on in such building is completed, and all finished explosives shall with all due diligence either be removed to a factory-magazine, or sent away immediately from the factory, and such ingredients and explosives shall be loaded and unloaded with all due diligence.

23. All ingredients to be made or mixed into explosives shall, before being so made or mixed, be carefully sifted for the purpose of removing therefrom, so far as practicable, all dangerous foreign matter.

24. All explosives intended for conveyance from a factory shall be packed in the hereinafter-described manner; and in determining to what class or division any explosive may belong, the classification and division of explosives as gazetted by Order of the Governor in Council under “The Explosives Act, 1882,” and its amendments, must be strictly observed:—

A. With respect to explosives of the First (Gunpowder) Class,—

(i.) The explosive, if not exceeding 5 lb. in amount, shall be contained in a substantial case, bag, canister, or other receptacle, made and closed so as to prevent the explosive from escaping.

(ii.) The explosive, if exceeding 5 lb. in amount, shall be contained either in a single package or a double package. A single package shall be a box, barrel, or case of such strength, construction, and character as may for the time being be approved by an Inspector of Explosives as being of such strength, construction, and character that it will not be broken or accidentally opened, or become defective or insecure, whilst being conveyed, and will not allow the explosive to escape. If the explosive is packed in a double package, the inner package shall be a substantial case, bag, canister, or other receptacle, made and closed so as to prevent the explosive from escaping; and the outer package shall be a box, barrel, or case of wood or metal, or other solid material, and shall be of such strength, construction, and character that it will not be broken or accidentally opened, or become defective or insecure, whilst being conveyed, and will not allow the explosive to escape.

(iii.) Whatever be the amount of the explosive, the interior of every package, whether single or double, shall be kept free from grit and otherwise clean.

(iv.) No package, whether single or double, when actually used for the package of explosives, shall be used for any other purpose.

(v.) There shall not be any iron or steel in the construction of any such single package or inner or outer package, unless the same is effectively covered with tin, zinc, or other suitable material.