1983 Ed.]

Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations [CAP. 295

8. There shall be displayed in a prominent position on any vehicle carrying explosives a rectangular red flag of a size not less than 230 x 300 mm.

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[Subsidiary] Vehicle carrying explosives to display a red flag. L.N. 119/68. L.N. 119/83.

Storage of explosives

9. Every application, pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of the Ordinance, for any licence to possess or store any explosives shall be made in writing addressed to the Authority.

10. (1) Except as provided in this regulation, no explosives of class 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 in category I shall be stored otherwise than in a Government Explosives Depot, or in a Mode A store the site of which has been approved in writing by the Authority.

(2) No explosives of class 5 (fulminate) in category 1 shall be stored otherwise than in a Government Explosives Depot.

(2A) No explosives, other than safety cartridges and cartridges for small arms, shall be stored in a Mode A store constructed in accordance with regulation 11(3A).

(3) Safety cartridges and cartridges for small arms, not exceeding in the aggregate 20,000 rounds, may be stored in a Mode B store.

(4) This regulation shall not apply to the storage by any person of safety cartridges and cartridges for small arms, not exceeding in each case 1,000 rounds in the aggregate-

(a) if a licence has been granted to that person (or in the case of a corporation to a responsible officer thereof on its behalf) under the Firearms and Ammunition Ordinance authorizing the storage of those cartridges by that person;

or

(b) if that Ordinance by the operation of Part II thereof, does not apply to the possession of or dealing in those cartridges by that person.

(5) Manufactured fireworks, not exceeding in the aggregate 200 kg, may be stored in a Mode B store.

(6) [Deleted, L.N. 21/71]

(7) Explosives may be stored in a factory in such quantities as are reasonably required incidental to the manufacture thereof.

(8) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply to such quantity, not exceeding 5,000 rounds in the aggregate or 5 kg of explosive content (whichever is the less), of safety cartridges for industrial fastening tools.

Application for licences for storage of explosives.

Storage of explosives generally.

L.N. 21/71.

L.N. 68/79.

68 of 1981, s. 56.

(Cap. 238.)

L.N. 119/68. L.N. 119/83.

L.N. 17/66. L.N. 119/83.

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