Offences and penaltics.
Alterations 10 and mamlenonçe
of atores after grant or renewal
of licence.
Special defences
relating to warehouse owners and Curriers.
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177. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 175 or 176 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary coo- viction to a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for one month.
PART XII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
178. (1) After the grant or renewal of any licence for the storage of dangerous goods of any category-
(a) no alteration or addition to the store or to its fittings or equipment shall, except with the permission in writing of the Authority, be made which results in a deviation in any material particular from the plan of such store, or from the fittings of equipment thereof, as is, for the time being, approved by the Authority; and
(b) the store, and its fittings and equipment, shall be maintained at all times in good order and condition to the satisfaction of the Authority.
(2) The Authority may refuse to grant his permission for the making of any alteration or addition as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) until he has received and approved a plan of the
same.
(3) The licensee of any store in respect of which any of the provi sions of paragraph (1) is contravened shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for one month.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, “Authority" means the Authority by whom the licence was granted or renewed.
179. No warehouse owner or carrier, acting in such capacity, who is accused of an offence under these regulations relating to the contents of any container or the inner packing of any dangerous goods or the labelling of any such inner packing shall be convicted thereof if he shows, to the satisfaction of the court. that he did not know the true nature of the contents of the container or the manner in or the extent to which the container was filled or the true nature of or the labelling of the inner packing of such goods, as the case may be, and that he could not, with reasonable diligence, have obtained such knowledge.
Special
180. No person who is accused of an offence under these regulations defences
relating to the conveyance, storage or packing of dangerous goods shall relating to the transport
be convicted thereof if he shows, to the satisfaction of the court, that of dangerous he was conveying, storing or packing such dangerous goods for his goods.
reasonable personal use and that the quantity thereof was sufficient only for such use, or that he was transporting such goods for delivery to some other person for such use and in such quantity.
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the use of
181. Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations Governor relating to the packing of any dangerous goods, in any particular case may pormit in which the Governor is satisfied that some other packing provided for alternative any dangerous goods, although not conforming to the requirements packing for prescribed by these regulations in respect of the packing of such goods, dangerou goods in provides a similar degree of safety to that which would have been certain cases. provided by the prescribed packing, he may permit the use of such other packing.
182. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, Prohibited substances. but subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), the following dangerous goods shall be prohibited goods for the purposes of section 5A of the Ordinance-
Ammonium Permanganate. Ammonium Chlorate.
Ammonium Nitrate, if containing organic matter otherwise than of a nature and within a limit approved, either generally or in any particular case, by the Ministry or the Authority. Calcium Azide, except in aqueous solution not exceeding twenty
per cent of Calcium Azide by weight.
Chloric Acid, solutions of strength greater than ten per cent by
weight.
Hydrazine Nitrale.
Hydrazine Perchlorate.
Hydrogen Cyanide, unstabilized.
Hydrogen Peroxide solutions of strength greater than sixty per cent
by weight.
Manufactured fireworks (category 1. class 7. division 2) which
explode on impact.
Organic Perchlorates.
Perchloric Acid solutions of strength greater than seventy-two per
cent by weight.
(2) Manufactured fireworks (dangerous goods of category 1, class 7. division 2) which are brought into the Colony on any vessel not carrying passengers and directly transhipped to another vessel to be taken out of the Colony and which are packed in the manner specified in the table to regulation 45 for dangerous goods of category 1, class 7. division 2, shall not be deemed to be prohibited goods for the purposes of paragraph (1).
183. (1) Where any licence or permit is required pursuant to any Licences of the provisions of the Ordinance or of these regulations, such licence and permits.
or permit shall be granted or renewed by the Authority upon payment
of the fee, if any, specified in the table to this regulation.