MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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(7) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosive to anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any other vessel, except by permission of the Harbour Master.
Vessel not to anchor within 500 yards of any other vessel.
(8) The master of every vessel about to take on board as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive shall give notice to the Harbour Master, and shall take the said vessel into the Gunpowder Anchorage or into such other anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and shall not remove therefrom, except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.
Mode of proceeding when gunpowder to be exported.
(9) No gunpowder or other explosive shall be shipped, landed, or transhipped, within the waters of the Colony, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, or between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except with the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.
No gunpowder shipped, etc., without written permission.
(10) It shall not be lawful for any person, without the permission in writing of the Governor, to keep, except at the Government Gunpowder Depôt, for any time, however short, any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive: Provided, nevertheless, that any person may keep for his private use only, and not for sale, any quantity of gunpowder not exceeding twenty pounds and any number of safety cartridges not exceeding five thousand.
Limit of storage without permission.
Reg. 7.
(11) Where any magistrate has reasonable grounds for believing that any gunpowder or other explosive is kept on board any vessel, or in any house or place, in contravention of this section, he may grant a warrant to any police officer to enter the same, and thereupon such officer may so enter and, if necessary, break into the premises and search the same.
Search warrant.
(12) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this section, and for the movement, carriage, landing, shipment, and transhipment of explosives, and the precautions to be taken in connection therewith, and to fix the sums chargeable for the storage of gunpowder, safety cartridges, or other explosives. Every violation or neglect of any such regulations shall render the party so offending liable to the penalties imposed by sub-section (14).
Regulations for carrying out provisions of s. 36.
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