THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1911.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
293
No. 229.
Order made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 10 (3) of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1873), this 1st day of August, 1911.
So much of Order No. 132 made by the Governor-in-Council on the 4th day of May, 1911, and published in the Gazette on the 12th day of May, 1911, as relates to Conditions of Licence to store Compressed Oxygen is hereby revoked and there shall be substituted the following conditions of licences as to the storage of Compressed Oxygen and Dissolved Acetylene respectively:--
Conditions of Licence to store Compressed Oxygen.
1. No room or store shall be licensed for the storage of Compressed Oxygen unless it shall have been approved for such storage by the Captain Superintendent of
Police.
2. Such room or store shall be sufficiently well lighted and shall be thoroughly well
ventilated and kept cool.
3. No fire, matches, or artificial light (except incandescent electric light) shall be
used within such room or store.
4. Such room or store shall be kept locked as much as possible.
5. No goods of a highly combustible nature shall be kept in the same room or store
with Compressed Oxygen.
6. No Compressed Oxygen shall be kept in any such room or store unless packed in
cylinders.
7. Such cylinders shall be made of wrought iron or mild steel of the best quality, containing 99 per cent. of iron, and not more than 0.25 per cent. of carbon, thoroughly annealed after manufacture. They shall be of sufficient strength and efficiently tested.
8. Each cylinder should bear a label containing in legible characters, both in English
and Chinese, the words "Compressed Oxygen-Dangerous ".
9. Cylinders shall not be charged to a greater pressure than 2,200 lbs. per square
inch.
Conditions of Licence to store Dissolved Acetylene.
1. No room or store shall be licensed for the storage of Dissolved Acetylene unless it shall have been approved for such storage by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
2. Such room or store shall be sufficiently well lighted and shall be thoroughly well
ventilated and kept cool.
3. No fire, matches, or artificial light (except incandescent electric light) shall be
used within any such room or store.
4. Such room or store shall be kept locked as much as possible.
5. No goods of a highly combustible nature shall be kept in the same room or store
with Dissolved Acetylene.
6. No Dissolved Acetylene shall be kept in any such room or store unless packed in
cylinders.
7. Such cylinders shall be made of wrought iron or mild steel of the best quality, containing 99 per cent. of iron, and not more than 0.25 per cent. of carbon, thoroughly annealed after manufacture. They shall be of sufficient strength and efficiently tested.
8. No such cylinder shall contain more than 200 cubic feet of Acetylene in solution shall any cylinder be charged to a greater pressure than 300 lbs. per square
nor
inch.
9. Each cylinder shall bear a label containing in legible characters, both in English
and Chinese, the words "Dissolved Acetylene-Dangerous".