The object of section 3 of this Ordinance is to exempt lubricating oils and high test petroleum fuel from the operation of sections 9, 10, 14, 15, and 16 of Ordinance 8 of 1873, and from the operation of any bye-laws relating to the movement or storage of dangerous goods which have been heretofore made, and from any bye-laws relating to dangerous goods which may hereafter be made unless such special classes of goods are expressly mentioned in such bye-laws. By that means, such special classes of dangerous goods will be exempted from the severe tests which have been hitherto applicable to them in common with all other dangerous goods.
At the same time, however, it appears desirable, looking to the dangers which might arise from the mixing of low flash oil with the high flash oil, to retain the power of making bye-laws for the movement of and conditions for the storage of such special classes of goods, instead of exempting them altogether from all the liabilities attaching to dangerous goods.
Section 4 of this Ordinance is rendered necessary by the fact that the Merchant Shipping...