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[Subsidiary]
Deterioration of explosives in a store.
Licensee to comply with directions given by the Authority.
Certain explosives to be stored separately.
Stock book to be kept in or near store.
CAP. 295] Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations
[1983 Ed.
24. (1) The licensee of any store shall cause all explosives therein which are liable to deterioration to be inspected not less than once in each month by a person having reasonable experience in the handling of explosives.
(2) The licensee shall cause any deterioration of or damage to explosives discovered in any store to be reported to the Authority immediately.
(3) The licensee shall cause any explosive which has suffered deterioration or damage to be removed from the store and destroyed in such manner as the Authority may direct.
(4) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to manufactured fireworks:
Provided that the Authority may seize and cause to be destroyed any such fireworks as appear to him to have deteriorated or become damaged.
25. (1) The Authority may give directions as to the method of storage of any explosive in any store.
(2) The licensee of any store in respect of which directions have been given under paragraph (1) shall, so soon as may be, comply with such directions.
26. No explosive of any group specified hereunder shall be stored in any receptacle together with any explosive of any other group specified hereunder, unless it is so separated by intervening partitioning as to prevent explosion or fire communicating from one to the other-
Group A-All explosives in category 1, classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and class 6, division 2, which do not contain exposed iron or steel, and cartridges made with any such explosives which do not contain their own means of ignition and safety fuse.
Group B-All explosives in category 1, class 6, division 1. Group C-All explosives in category 1, class 6, division 2 which contain exposed iron or steel.
Group D-All explosives in category 1, class 6, division 3.
Group E-Firework.
27. (1) The licensee of any Mode A store shall keep in or near the store a stock book, in such form as the Authority may prescribe.
(2) Such stock book shall be kept up to date, and shall show the amount and description of all explosives brought into the store, and the date on which they were so brought, together with a reference to the source from which they were obtained.