Conditions

for grant of licence.

Restriction

on storage

together of certain subalanser La stares.

General

provisions

relating to SLOTage, conveyance and packing of dangerous goods of Category 9.

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168. No licence shall be granted or renewed by the Authority for the storage of dangerous goods unless the Authority is satisfied in relation to the store that-

(a) the site of the store and the plan referred to in regulation 167 have been approved by him and the construction of the store conforms with the plan;

(3) the store is provided with such fire extinguishing equipment

as he may require.

169. (1) No person shall store, or cause or permit to be stored, any dangerous goods of category 9 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, in any store any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation together with any substance specified opposite thereto in the second column of the table in the same compartment or bunded space in any stare.

Cotton waste.

TABLE.

any other dangerous goods of category 9.

170. (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 table to this regulation unless such substance is contained in maîn 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 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 third column of the table opposite the type of packing specified for that substance in the second column of the table.

(3) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any container containing any substance specified ja the first column of the table to this regulation unless such container is enclosed in protective or outer packing of a type specified in the fourth column of the table opposite the type of packing for that substance specified in the second column of the cable.

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(4) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the cable 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 of First letters appearing in the fifth column of the table opposite such sub-

stance:

Schedule.

Provided that, where any inner packing of any substance is already conspicuously marked in English and Chinese in such manner as to indicate that the contents are liable to spontaneous combustion, nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to require the substitution therefor, or the addition thereto, of any label prescribed in the Firm Schedule. First

(5) 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 sixth column of the table; or

(b) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that substance in the seventh column of the table if it is conveyed or stored solely-

Schedule.

(i) 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 (Csp. 165). Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance; or

(ii) for use in and for the purposes of a mental hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Ordinance, 1960; or (35 of 1960).

(iii) 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; or

(5 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; or

(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. 138).

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