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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2,
Special vans for dangerous goods
Prepayment of freight on dangerous or
17.-(1) Subject to any exceptions from time to time notified by the Railway Administration, dangerous goods of the kind marked respectively B, C and D in rule 14 may be carried only in vans specially constructed for the carriage of dangerous goods:
Provided that Lee-Metford, Martini-Henri and Snider ammunition may, when such vans are not available, be carried in ordu.áry covered wagons.
(2) When any dangerous goods are to be carried in such vans as aforesaid, whether in pursuance of clause (1) of this rule or not, the goods shall not be accepted for carriage unless sufficient notice to provide such vans has been given.
18. Subject to any exceptions from time to time notified by the Railway Administration, the freight on dangerous or offensive offensive goods goods must be prepaid.
Loading and unloading of dangerous or offensive good-
Ordinary
merchandise
19.-Dange ous or offensive goods must, unless it be otherwise notified by the Railway Administration, be loaded by the con- signor and unloaded by the consignee.
20. No railway servant shall load ordinary merchandise in
not to be loaded the same vehicle with explosives.
with explosives
Label on
vehicle contain-
ing explosives
Naked light,
and unprotected lamps
Trains by which vehicles loaded with
explosives may be sent
Sending by passenger traiu of dangerous goods marked B
Special
provisions as të carriage of carbide of calcium
Unclaimed dangerous goods
Saving of rulcs nuder explosive and petroleum acts
21. The railway servant supervising the loading of any vehicle with explosives must see that a dangerous goods label is placed on each side of such vehicle.
22.-No railway servant shall take or leave any naked light- or any unprotected lamp near any vehicle containing dangerous goods.
23.-Except under approved special instructions, vehicles loaded with explosives shall be sent only with a goods train, and shall be placed in the rear of the train, but not next the rear brake van:
or other
Provided that vehicles loaded with ammunition explosives belonging to troops may be sent with the train by which the troops travel, but must be placed next behind the front brake
van.
24.--One case containing dangerous goods of any kind marked in rule 14 may be sent by passenger train.
24A-(1) Vehicles used for the carriage of carbide of calcium must be thoroughly ventilated and rendered impervious to rain, and no naked lights shall be allowed in such vehicles.
(2) Carbide of calcium shall not be carried by passenger train in any quantity exceeding four hundred and fifty pounds per train. (3) Carbide of calcium, while in the possession of a railway for transport, shall not be stored in any railway goods shed, but shall be stacked in the open under waterproof sheets, and so placed as to prevent its getting wet.
(4) All lights shall be kept away from carbide of calcium stacked as provided in sub-rule (3).
(5) If any carbide of calcium is wetted while in the possession of a railway for transport, it shall be destroyed by immersion in at least twenty times its bulk of water.
NOTE. The fact of carbide of calcium having become wet will be indicated by the outward appearance of the drum or case and probably by a disagreeable odour, showing a leakage of gas.
25.-If, upon the arrival of any dangerous goods at their destination, the consignee does not take delivery of and remove the same within the time notified by the Railway Administration, they may be kept in the vehicle in which they were carried until delivery is effected, or until they are disposed of under approved special instructions, or otherwise.
26.--The rules in this Chapter and in Appendix A to these rules are in addition to, and not in modification of, the rules made under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873 (No. 1 of 1873), and under any Ordinance amending the same.
1910.
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