[ef. pr. Act, 5.667(4).1
Storage of explosives.
Director te bg furnished
with parti
culars of explosives due to arrive in the Colony.
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(2) If any owner or person fails to comply with such notice es aforesaid, the Director may enter into the place wherein the samme may be, and forthwith extinguish snch fire or light, doing no unnecessary damage. All expenses incurred by the Director in such extinction may be recovered from such owner or person as aforesaid.
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PART XL.
EXPLOSIVES AND DANGERous Goods.
81. (0) The Governor may provide all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder and other explosives. Such vessels or buildings shall be termed the Government Guu- powder Depot, and shall be under the control and management of the Director, 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 Director, with the approval of the Governor, may deem expedient.
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(2) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel tụ anchor within five hundred yards of the Government Gunpowder Depot, except by permission of the Director.
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82. (1) The master, agent or consignee of every vessel due to arrive in the Colony, having on board thereof as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive, shall not less than forty-eight hours before the arrival of such vessel in the Colony furnish the Director with a copy of the manifest of the same, the marks of all packages, and the names of the consignees if he knows the same.
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(2) The master of every such vessel-
(4) shall on arrival, take the same to the dangerous goods anchorage or to the place specified to him by the Director, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom, without the written permission of the Director, until the cargo of explosives has been discharged or for the purpose of going to sea;
(b) shall hoist by day a red flag and show at night a red light at the fore truck, or where there is only one mast at the mast head, or where there is no mast on a pole at the bow, and shall keep such red flag flying by day or such red light showing by night so long as any gun- powder or other explosive is on board;
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(c) shall not anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any other vessel, except by permission of the Director.
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83. (1) The master of every vessel about to take on board Notice to
Director as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive shall give and proce notice to the Director, and shall take the said vessel into the dure when dangerous goods anchorage or into such other anchorage as the explosives are to be Director may deem expedient, and shall not remove therefrom exported,
shipped or except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some landed. other sufficient cause to be approved by the Director. [36(8)
(2) No gunpowder or other explosive shall be shipped, landed or transhipped within the waters of the Colony except with the permission of the Director,
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84. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulations Regula. prescribe and provide for carrying our the provisions of this Part, tious for
explosives and for the control, movement, carriage, landing, shipment and and fees for transhipment of explosives and the precautions to be taken in storage, connexion therewith, and the sums chargeable for the storage of Regula- gunpowder, safety cartridges or other explosives.
etc.
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(2) The suns charged in respect of the storage of such gun- powder or other explosive shall be paid monthly by the party in whose name the same is or are stored, and, in the event of non- payment within twenty-one days after the money has become due and payable, the Governor play direct the said gunpowder or other explosive to be sold in order to defray the expense of storage, and the proceeds thereof after deducting all Government charges and the expenses of sale shall be paid to the party who proves himself entitled thereto to the satisfaction of the Governor.
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Table 8.
85. Any person who violates, or refuses or fails to comply Penalty. with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 81, subsection (1) or (2) of section 82, subsection (1) or (3) of section 83 or section 84 shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
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86. (1) Nothing in this Part shall be deemed to affect the Savings. provisions of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873- [38(15) (1 of 1873.)
(2) Nothing in this Part shall apply to Her Majesty's ships of war, or to the ships of war of any foreign nation, or to hired armed vessels in Her Majesty's service or in the service of any foreign nation, or to any Government storage places. [36(18)