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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

conveyed with all due diligence, and with such precautions and in such manner as will sufficiently guard against any accidental ignition or explosion.

115. A person under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed in or enter any danger building except in the presence of and under the supervision of some adult person.

116. Nothing in these regulations shall prevent coal or other fuel being taken on board any hulk or other floating vessel used as a private magazine, provided the maximum quantity to be kept on board at any one time is specified in the license, and stored in some safe place with free and sufficient ventilation, and with all due precautions against ignition, whether spontaneous or otherwise, and provided the place where such fuel is to be consumed shall be approved by an Inspector of Explosives.

117. There shall not be kept in any private magazine licensed for the storage of explosives any—

(a.) Explosive of the 5th (Fulminate) Class;
(b.) Explosive which is not for the time being either authorized to be manufactured for general sale or authorized to be imported.

118. If two or more explosives are kept in the same magazine they shall be separated from each other by such intervening partition or such substance and character, or by such intervening space, as will effectively prevent explosion or fire in the one communicating with the other, subject nevertheless to the following qualifications:—

(a.) The various explosives of Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4, safety fuse belonging to the 1st Division of Class 6 (Ammunition), and such of the various explosives of the 2nd Division of Class 6 (Ammunition) as do not contain any exposed iron or steel, may be kept with each other without any intervening partition or space.
(b.) The various explosives of the 1st Division of Class 6 (Ammunition) may be kept with each other without any intervening partition or space.
(c.) Such of the various explosives of the 2nd Division of Class 6 (Ammunition) as contain any exposed iron or steel may be kept with each other without any intervening partition or space.
(d.) The various explosives of the 3rd Division of Class 6 (Ammunition) may be kept with each other without any intervening partition or space.
(e.) The various explosives of Class 7 (Fireworks) may be kept with each other without any intervening partition or space.

119. The licensee of every magazine, and every person employed in and about the same, shall take all due precaution for the prevention of accidents by fire or explosion in the same, and for preventing unauthorized persons having access to the magazine 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 magazine.

120. Every licensee of a magazine shall, with the sanction of the Minister, make special rules for the regulation of the persons managing or employed in or about such magazine, with a view to secure the observance of these regulations therein, and the safety and proper discipline of the said persons, and the safety of the public.

121. The licensee may, and if required by the Minister shall, with the sanction of the Minister, repeal, alter, or add to any special rules made in pursuance of the preceding clause.

122. No explosive shall be received into any magazine unless the outermost package or covering is branded, labelled, or marked with the words or characters required by the preceding regulations contained in Part III hereof respecting the packing and marking of explosives in a factory.

123. While any explosive, other than explosive of the 1st Division of the 6th (Ammunition) Class, is being received or delivered, or while the hatches or door of any danger building or the hatches or coverings of any vessel, boat, or hulk which contains any such explosive, are open, no fire, unprotected lights, or smoking shall be allowed; and when any vessel, boat, or hulk having on board a fire other than engine-fire properly banked up, or unprotected lights, is alongside a magazine containing any explosive other than explosive of the 1st Division of the 6th (Ammunition) Class, or in its immediate vicinity, no receipt or delivery of explosive shall be carried on, and the hatches or door of any danger building shall not be open.

124. A danger building shall be deemed to be every building or place in which any explosive other than an explosive of the 1st Division of the 6th (Ammunition) Class or an explosive of the 3rd Division of the 7th (Firework) Class is kept or present; and every building in which any 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 is liable to be so kept or present, shall, unless specially exempted by the license or by an order of an Inspector of Explosives, be deemed to be a danger building.

125. “Magazine” in this Part of these regulations includes any building, chamber, hulk, or floating vessel, or place set apart exclusively for the storage of explosives.

126. The person to whom a license has been issued under this Part of these regulations shall be called “the licensee,” and shall be deemed to be the keeper of the magazine.

127. Wherever in these regulations an explosive is distinguished as belonging to a particular class or division of a class, reference is made to the classification of explosives as contained in Part I of these regulations.

128. The payment of an annual license fee in connection with a private magazine will not confer the right to sell explosives. If any licensee desires to trade in explosives he must take out a license to sell explosives.

PART V.—SALE OF EXPLOSIVES.

129. This Part of these regulations shall not apply to the explosives of the 1st Division of the 6th (Ammunition) Class, explosives of the 3rd Division of the 7th (Firework) Class, or such other explosives as may from time to time be specially exempted from the operation of this Part of these regulations.