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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 69

Regulations under the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of July, 1914.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed 'the said Act'), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke, as on and from the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, all regulations heretofore made or deemed to have been made under the said Act, and in lieu thereof doth order that on and after the said first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, the following regulations shall take effect for the purposes of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,
   'Explosives' or 'any explosive' means and includes 'explosives' as defined by the said Act:
   'Magazine' means any building, chamber, hulk, floating vessel, or place set apart for the storage of explosives, or for the storage of partly manufactured explosives, or the ingredients of an explosive, and includes 'factory-magazine,' 'private magazine,' and 'licensed premises':
   'Danger building' includes the term 'magazine,' and means every building in which any explosive, other than explosives of the 1st Division of the 6th (Ammunition) Class, or explosives of the 3rd Division of the 7th (Firework) Class, or any ingredient of such explosive, 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 is liable to be kept or present, unless specially exempted by a license or by a written order of an Inspector of Explosives :
   'Minister' means the Minister of Internal Affairs, or such other Minister as may be appointed by the Governor to administer Part I of the said Act:
   'Inspector' or 'Inspector of Explosives' means any officer appointed under the said Act for the inspection or testing of explosives, and includes all police officers and any Customs officer, Government magazine-keeper, or other responsible person performing such of the duties of an Inspector as the Minister directs:
   'Manufacture' means and includes the process of making up of any explosive or the process of dividing into component parts or breaking up or unmaking of any explosive, or the process of remaking, altering, or repairing any explosive, or the process of separating or picking out of defective or damaged portions of explosives; but does not include the process of making a small quantity of explosive for chemical experiment and not for practical use or sale:
   'Boat' or 'lighter' includes every vessel which is used in navigation in any inland water or any harbour, whether propelled by oars or otherwise:
   'Ship' includes any description of boat, hulk, or vessel.

2. Whenever in these regulations the expression 'due precaution shall be taken' or similar expression is used as a condition to any regulation, an Inspector of Explosives shall in all cases decide what provisions constitute the necessary precautions.

3. For the purposes of these regulations, and in determining to what class or division of a class any explosive may belong, the classification of explosives as set forth in Part I of these regulations must be strictly enforced.

4. Nothing in these regulations shall prohibit the keeping for private use only, and not for sale, of explosives in quantities not exceeding the following:
   (a.) Of gunpowder or any nitro-compound adapted and intended exclusively for use in small arm cartridges only, not more than 30 lb.
   (b.) Of an explosive not so adapted and intended : where blasting-gunpowder only is stored, not more than 10 lb.; and where any other explosive is stored, not more than 5 lb.: besides 100 detonators.
   Provided that every person keeping for private use only any quantity of explosives allowed by this regulation shall take all due precaution in the storage of the same, and for the prevention of accidents by fire or explosion.

PART I.—DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF EXPLOSIVES.

5. No explosive shall be imported into, or manufactured, stored, or sold in, New Zealand unless the composition, quality, grade, and character of the explosive, as defined by the manufacturer, has been approved by the Minister, and a notification of such approval made by publishing the name of the explosive in the list of authorized explosives contained in these regulations or in some amendment thereto.