656
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 667 (4).]
Vessels and buildings for storage of explosives.
Government Gunpowder Depôt.
Vessel not to anchor within 500 yards of Depôt.
Harbour Master to be furnished with particulars of explosives arriving in the Colony.
Master to take vessel to specified place.
Red flag to be exhibited.
extinguish such fire or light, doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses incurred by the Harbour Master in such extinction may be recovered from such owner or person as aforesaid.
PART VIII.
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.
36.-(1) The Governor may provide all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder and other explosives.
(2) Such vessels or buildings shall be termed the Government Gunpowder Depôt, and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may be received from the Governor; and such vessels or buildings shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may deem expedient.
(3) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to anchor within five hundred yards of the Government Gunpowder Depôt, except by permission of the Harbour Master.
(4) The master, agent or consignee of every vessel arriving in the Colony, having on board thereof as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive, shall, immediately on arrival and before the discharge from the vessel of any of such gunpowder or other explosive, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of the same, the marks of all the packages, and the names of the consignees, if he knows the same.
(5) The master of every such vessel shall, on arrival, take the same to the Gunpowder Anchorage or to the place which may be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom, without the written permission of the Harbour Master, until the cargo of explosives has been discharged or for the purpose of going to sea.
(6) The master of every vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosive, and whilst engaged in the transhipment of the same, shall exhibit a red flag at the highest mast-head.
* As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32].