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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 1, 1940.
PART II-LIST OF DANGEROUS GOODS.
3. It is hereby declared that the substances specified in the List of Dangerous Goods set out hereunder shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873:-
CATEGORY 1.
AUTHORIZED EXPLOSIVES,
CLASS 1.-GUNPOWDER,
The term "gunpowder" means exclusively gunpowder ordinarily so called.
Note.-Gunpowder ordinarily so called means a mixture
of charcoal, sulphur and nitrate of potassium or nitrate of sodium: and whether used for blasting or as a propellant.
CLASS 2.--NITRATE MIXTURE.
"Nitrate mixture" means any preparation, other than gunpowder ordinarily so called, formed by the mechanical mixture of a nitrate with any form of carbon or with any carbonaceous substance not possessed of explosive properties, whether sulphur be or be not added to such preparation, and whether such preparation be or be not mechanically mixed with any other non-explosive substance,
This class comprises the following explosives :-
Ascot Powder No. 2.
Ascot Powder No. 3.
Bobbinite.
Cardox Composition.
Cendite.
Cendite igniter Composition.
Delay Composition.
Heatox A.
Heatox B.
Heatox C.
Heatox D.
Heatox E.
Improved Bull Dog Gunpow-
der Pellets.
M. Powder.
Nobel's Time Ring Powder
No. I.
Perklorex. Permite. Pranada.
Q. Powder.
Quarry Westfalite No. 1. Quarry Westfalite No. 2. Rexol.
S. R. 252.
S. R. 261.
S. R. 261 P.
Vickers' Ignition Composi-
tion.
Any explosive containing a perchlorate and not in- cluded in Classes 3, 4. or 5.
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CLASS 3.--NITRO-COMPOUND.
"Nitro-compound" means any chemical compound. possessed of explosive properties, or capable of combining with metals to form an explosive compound, which is produced by the chemical action of nitric acid (whether mixed or not with sulphuric acid) or of a nitrate mixed with sulphuric acid upon any carbonaceous substance, whether such compound is mechanically mixed with other substances or not.
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