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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

82. 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 of Explosives and provided for that purpose.

83. The doors of the magazines shall be kept securely locked, except at such times as explosives are being taken in or removed.

84. 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the magazines and other danger buildings shall be closed, and every person engaged in and about them shall be withdrawn therefrom.

85. Every occupier of a factory licensed for the manufacture of explosives shall keep a record of the names and address of each person to whom and the date on which he sells any explosive, together with the description of that explosive, and the quantity thereof sold, and shall produce on demand such record for inspection by an Inspector of Explosives.

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

REGULATIONS REGARDING RACKAROCK AND ERUPTITE.

87. The Minister may issue to such persons as he may think fit licenses authorizing the manufacture by such persons of the explosive known as “rackarock.”

88. The names of the ingredients to be used in the manufacture of the said explosive shall be mentioned in each license.

89. The manufacture of the said explosive shall not be carried on underground in any mine.

90. No person shall carry on the manufacture of the said explosive other than the person to whom the license is issued, or some person in his employ duly authorized in writing by him.

91. If in any matter which is not provided for by any express condition or proviso in any license an Inspector of Explosives finds any store for the said explosive, or for the ingredients which when combined constitute the said explosive or any part thereof, or any thing or practice therein or connected therewith, to be unnecessarily dangerous or defective, so as in his opinion to tend to endanger the public safety or the bodily safety of any person, such Inspector may require the person to whom the license is issued to remedy the same at once and without delay, and if such person neglects to do so such neglect shall be deemed a breach of these regulations.

92. The Minister may, either with or without notice, at any time stop the manufacture of the said explosive by any licensed person, provided he deems such stoppage necessary in the interest of public safety, or may in the said interest direct the licensee or his agent to alter or amend the process of manufacture in such manner as he or any person duly authorized by him in that behalf may direct.

93. The Minister may by notice in writing declare any such license void upon being satisfied that the manufacture of the said explosive is not being conducted in accordance with the conditions of the license or in accordance with the directions given in pursuance of the last preceding clause, and that the further continuance of its manufacture will imperil the public safety.

94. The conveyance of rackarock in any vehicle or boat in or upon any public thoroughfare, river, harbour, or public place within New Zealand is hereby prohibited.

95. The license shall be valid to the person only to whom it is issued.

96. The above regulations relating to rackarock shall apply in like manner to the explosive known as “eruptite.”

PART IV.—STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES IN PRIVATE MAGAZINES.

97. A private magazine for the storage of explosives shall not be allowed except on a site and in the manner specified in a license for the same granted under the said Act and these regulations.

98. In order that the Minister may be in a position to determine upon what conditions he will issue a license for a private magazine for the storage of explosives, all applications to the Minister for such licenses must be made through the Chief Inspector of Explosives at Wellington, and 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”).

99. 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.