Conditions
for grant of licence.
Restriction
on storage together of pertain substances in stores
General provisions
relating to storage. conveyance and packing of corrosive substances.
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82. No licence shall be granted or renewed by the Authority for the storage of any corrosive substance unless the Authority is satisfied in relation to the store that-
(a) the site of the store and the plan referred to in regulation 81 have been approved by him and the construction of the store conforms with the plan; and
(b) in the case of any part of the store intended for the storage of corrosive substances in liquid form, the flooring and walls are constructed of impervious brickwork, masonry or cement and so constructed as to retain, in the event of spillage, the total quantity of liquid stored therein.
83. (1) No person shall store, or cause or permit to be stored, any dangerous goods of category 3 in any store together with any goods other than dangerous goods of that category.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), no person shall store, or cause or permit to be stored, any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation together with any sub- stance specified opposite thereto in the second column of the table in the same compartment or bunded space in any store.
Acetic Anhydride
Hydrobromic Acid Hydrochloric Acid Hydrofluoric Acid Perchloric Acid
TABLE.
Chlorosulphonic Acid Nitric Add
Perchloric Agd
Sulphuric Acid (concentrated or oleum)
Nitric Acid
Acid
(Sulphurichoid (concentrated or oleum)
84. (1) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the rable to this regulation unless such substance is contained in main or inner packing, as the case may be, of a type specified for that substance in the second column of the table.
(2) No person shall fill any container, or cause or permit any container to be filled, with any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation to such an extent as to leave within the container less than the minimum air space or ullage specified in the third column of the table opposite the type of packing specified for thai substance in the second column of the table.
(3) No person shall fill any container, or cause or permit any container to be filled, with any quantity of any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation greater than the maximum quantity or net weight thereof specified in the fourth column of the
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table opposite the type of packing specified for that substance in the second column of the table.
(4) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any container containing any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation unless such container is enclosed in protective or outer packing of the type specified in the fifth column of the table opposite the type of packing for that substance specified in the second column of the table.
(5) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation unless every main or inner packing and every protective or outer packing containing such substance bears the label or labels prescribed in the First Schedule indicated by the letter or Firm letters appearing in the sixth column of the table opposite that Schedule. substance:
Provided that, where any inner packing of any substance is already conspicuously marked in English and Chinese in such manner as to indicate the corrosive nature of the contents, nothing in this paragraph sball be construed to require the substitution therefor, or the addition thereto, of any label prescribed in the First Schedule.
(6) Subsection (1) of section 5 of the Ordinance shall not apply to the conveyance or storage of any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation-
(a) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that
substance in the seventh column of the table; or
(b) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that substance in the eighth column of the table if it is conveyed or stored solely-
First Schedule.
(1) for use in and for the purposes of a nursing or maternity home registered or exempted from registration in respect thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Nursing and (Cap. 165). Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance:
(i) for use in and for the purposes of a mental hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Ordinance, 1960;
(35 of 1960).
(ii) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the practice
of, a registered medical practitioner within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1957;
(25 of 1957),
(iv) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the practice of a registered dentist within the meaning of the Dentists (29 of 1959). Registration Ordinance, 1959;
(v) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the business
of, an authorized seller of poisons within the meaning of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance; or
(vi) for use in and for the purposes of any laboratory.
(Cap. 108).