AD. 1901.] GUNPOWDER AND FIREWORKS.
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E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Gunpowder and Fireworks Ordinance, 1901.
2. In this Ordinance-
"Gunpowder" means the common or black variety and includes nitro-compound explosives;
"Fireworks" mean what is usually understood by the term fireworks and include Chinese crackers;
Interpretation of terms.
c. 17 s. 108.
"Occupier" includes any number of persons and a body corporate, 38 & 39 Vict., and, in the case of any manufacture, includes any person carrying on such manufacture;
"Factory magazine" means a building for keeping the gunpowder for fireworks made in the factory.
Restrictions on Manufacture of Gunpowder and Fireworks.
3. No person shall manufacture or cause to be manufactured any gunpowder within such limits or parts of this Colony as may be prescribed by any rules made by the Governor-in-Council.
4. (1.) Outside such limits or parts no person shall manufacture or cause to be manufactured in this Colony any gunpowder, except at a factory established on the site and in the manner specified in a licence for the same granted under this Ordinance.
(2) The fee for any such licence shall be twenty-five dollars per annum payable in advance.
5. (1.) An applicant for a licence under the last preceding section shall, if required to do so, submit for the approval of the Governor a statement accompanied by a plan (drawn to scale) of the proposed factory and the site thereof (which plan shall be deemed to form part of, and to be in this Ordinance included in, the expression "the licence").
(2.) The draft licence shall contain the terms which the applicant proposes to have inserted in the licence, and shall specify such of the following matters as are applicable, namely,
(a) the boundaries of the land forming the site of the factory and either any belt of land surrounding the site which is to be kept clear, and the buildings and works from which it is to be kept clear, or the distances to be maintained between the factory or any part thereof and other buildings and works;
(b) the situation, character, and construction of all the mounds, buildings, and works on or connected with the factory and the distances thereof from each other.
Application for licence for factory, etc.
Ib. s. 6.
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