Precautions
To be taken During work donc in store,
Soaking probibited
in or near Mode A store or when Mode B stores are open.
Precautions
to be taken by licensee
of store.
Deterioration
in a store.
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21. (1) No repairs shall be carried out in or to any Mode A store unless-
(a) all explosives have been removed therefrom; and
(b) the store has been thoroughly washed out and cleaned.
(2) Until the requirements of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of para- graph (1) have been satisfied, no tool or implement made of any ferrous metal shall be used in any Mode A store.
22. (1) No person shall smoke or expose any naked light in any Mode A store or within thirty feet thereof or, if the Authority bas directed that such store be fenced about, inside such fencing.
(2) The licensee of any Mode B store shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that no person smokes or exposes any naked light in the immediate vicinity of any Mode B store while such store is open. 23. (1) The licensee of any store shall take all proper precautions to prevent-
(a) fire and explosion in the store; and
(6) unauthorized persons obtaining access to the store.
(2) The licensee of any store containing explosives liable to becomie dangerous by interaction with water shall take all proper precautions to exclude water from the store.
24. (1) The licensee of any store shall cause all explosives therein of explosives which are able to deterioration to be inspected not less than once in each month by a person baving reasonable experience in the handling of explosives.
Licensee to
comply with directions given by the Authority,
(2) The licensee shall cause any deterioration of or damage to ex- plosives discovered in any store to be reported to the Authority im- mediately.
(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 fire- works:
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.
to be stored
26. No explosive of any group specified hereunder shall be stored Certain in any receptacle together with any explosive of any other group speci- explosives fied hereunder, unless it is so separated by intervening partitioning as separately. to prevent explosion or fire communicating from one to the other-
Group A-All explosives of 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 of category 1, class 6, division 1.
Group C-All explosives of category 1, class 6, division 2 which
contain exposed iron or steel.
Group D-All explosives of 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.
(3) All issues of explosives from the store shall be recorded in such stock book in such manner that the balance in hand of each type of explosive may be readily discerned therefrom,
(4) Each entry in such stock book shall be written in ink in English, and shall be initialled by the person responsible for the custody of the keys of the store.
Stock book to be kept in or near store.
in store to
28. Except in the case of the storage of manufactured fireworks Particulata pot exceeding four hundred pounds in weight, the licensee of any Mode of explosives A or Mode B store shall, on the first day of each month during the be furnished currency of his licence, furnish to the Authority particulars of the nature monthly and quantities of the explosives stored in the store.
Manufacture of explosives.
to be
Authority.
manufacture
29. (1) Every application, pursuant to any of the provisions of Application section 5 of the Ordinance, for any licence to manufacture explosives for licence to shall be made in writing addressed to the Authority and shall be accom- explosives. panied by two copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of the area to be occupied by the factory at which the manu-