388 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910.
No. 271.
Order made by the Officer Administering the Government-in- Council under Section 5 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1873), this 29th day of August, 1910.
The Order-in-Council published in the Gazette on the 12th October, 1906, and on page 27 of the Regulations of Hongkong 1910 supplemented.
Whereas by Section 3 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (as amended by the Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1902), it is enacted that the following goods namely, petroleum, nitro-glycerine or glonoine oil, gun cotton, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, dynamite, blasting powders, gunpowder, fuse (other than safety fuses), rockets, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions (other than percussion caps or priming caps or empty sporting cases), phosphorus, aqua fortis, vitriol, naphtha aud benzene shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of the Ordinance :
And Whereas the Governor-in-Council by virtue of the power to that effect vested in in him by Section 5 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance. 1873, has on the 12th day of October, 1906, declared that in addition to the goods named above the following shall be deemed to be dangerous goods :-
Gelatine dynamite.
Cheddite.
Gelignite.
Blasting gelatine.
Bobbinite.
Compressed gunpowder.
Rackarock.
Chlorate of potash mixture for rackarock.
Nitrobenzene or Oil of Mirbane (exceeding one pound in weight).
Picric Explosive (including Pieric Acid exceeding one pound in weight, Picrates, Pieric and Picrate Mixtures), unless such Picric Explosive is mixed with not less than half its own weight of water.
Calcium Carbide (a) exceeding five pounds kept in one pound tins hermetically sealed, or (b) exceeding five pounds kept in a properly equipped gasometer or apparatus, prepared for use, and so situated that public safety is not in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council likely to be endangered.
Ether (exceeding one pound in weight).
Spirit of Wine (exceeding two gallons).
Methylated Spirit (exceeding two gallons).
Alcoholic liquid of a greater strength than 70 parts per cent. by weight of alcohol (exceeding two gallons if kept for private use or exceeding 50 gallons if kept for sale by retail):
And whereas the Governor-in-Council in further pursuance of the said power vested in him has on the 28th day of April, 1910, declared that in addition to the said goods the following shall be deemed to be dangerous goods:
Benzene (exceeding one pound in weight).
And Whereas it is desirable to declare certain other goods to be dangerous goods :
Now the Governor-in-Council by virtue of the power vested in him as aforesaid hereby declares that in addition to the goods named above the following shall be deemed to be dangerous goods:
Any preparation or adaptation or any substance similar or not to the following used
or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion:--
Nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, dynamite, blasting powders. gunpowder, gelatine dynamite, cheddite, gelignite, blasting gelatine, bobbinite, compressed gunpowder, rackarock, chlorate of potash mixture for rackarock, and pieric acid.