Application.
Regula tions
"licensed premises" means any premises in which dangerous goods are permitted to be manufactured or stored by virtue of a licence issued under this Ordinance;
"occupier" includes any number of persons and a body corporate and, in the case of any manufacture, includes any person carrying on such manufacture;
"owner" in respect of any vessel includes a charterer and any
person acting as agent for the owner;
"owner" in respect of dangerous goods includes any person acting
as agent for the owner;
"petroleum" includes crude petroleum, oil made from petroleum or from coal, shale, peat or other bituminous substance, and other products of petroleum or of any of the above-mentioned oils, and mixtures containing petroleum or any of the above- mentioned oils;
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"this Ordinance" includes regulations made under section 47 "vessel" includes any ship or boat or junk or any other description
of vessel used in navigation;
"warehouse owner" includes any person owning or managing any warehouse, store, quay, pier or other premises in which goods are deposited.
3.
This Ordinance shall apply to all explosives, compressed gases, petroleum and other substances giving off inflammable vapours, substances giving off poisonous gas or vapour, corrosive substances, substances which become dangerous by interaction with water or air, substances liable to spontaneous combustion or of a readily combustible nature, radioactive material and to such substances to which it is applied by the Governor in Council under section 4:
Provided that this Ordinance shall not apply-
(a) to any dangerous goods carried in Her Majesty's ships
of war, or in the ships of war of any foreign nation; or (b) to any dangerous goods in the possession and control of
the Crown.
4. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulation prescribe or provide for
(4) the application of this Ordinance to any substances and
articles whatsoever;
(b) the exemption of any substance or article to which this Ordinance applies or any quantity thereof from the operation of this Ordinance or any part thereof;
(c) the control of and the safety precautions which shall be taken in relation to the manufacture, possession, landing, shipment, transhipment, storage, movement, sale and use of dangerous goods;
(d) the label to be attached to any drum, tin, case or other package containing dangerous goods and the notices to be affixed to any premises containing dangerous goods and other methods of marking such goods or premises;
(e) the tests to be applied for any purpose whatsoever to any dangerous goods or to any receptacle which has con- tained dangerous goods;
( the manner in which any dangerous goods shall be
packed;
(g) requiring information to be furnished to such public officers as may be specified in respect of dangerous goods carried or to be loaded on any vessel or vehicle, and the nature of such information;
(h) requiring such dangerous goods signals as may be prescribed to be exhibited on any vessel or vehicle carry- ing or about to load dangerous goods;
(D) requiring such port fire alarm signals as may be pre- scribed to be exhibited or made on an outbreak of fire on any vessel carrying dangerous goods;
(i) the control of the blasting of stone, earth or other material, the precautions to be taken while such blasting takes place and the times during which such blasting may take place;
(k) the use of any cinematograph or similar apparatus upon any premises which is not a place of public entertainment within the meaning of the Places of Public Entertain- (Cap. 172). ment Ordinance;
(1) the apprehension without a warrant of any person found committing any such dangerous offence as may be specified on licensed premises, for the purpose of convey- ing such person before a magistrate;