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Conveyance

and storage of highly indammable or inflamma- bk liquid.

Highly inflammable and inflam- mable liquid not to be deposited in sewer, etc.

Empty con-

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(e) be filled only to such extent as will leave sufficient air space

to allow of expansion of the contents.

(2) (a) Any soldering-iron which is used in any plant for applying solder to any such receptacle and which is not heated by electricity shall be heated in a place separate from that in which it is intended to be used.

(6) The sill of any opening between the place where any soldering- iron is beated for such purpose and the place where it is intended to be used shall be not less than three feet above the floor of the building in which such places are situate, and any such opening shall be provided with an iron shutter kept in proper working order and operating, for the purpose of closing the opening, in a downward direction.

(3) No such receptacle in any plant shall be repaired unless such receptacle has been emptied of all its contents and rendered free from inflammable vapour:

Provided that a leak in any such receptacle disclosed during the filling thereof may be repaired during such filling in an approved

manuer.

General.

267. No highly inflammable or inflammable liquid shall be conveyed or stored except-

(a) in bulk; or

(b) when contained in a hermetically sealed container adequately

protected or sufficiently strong to withstand rough usage.

268. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any highly inflammable or inflammable liquid in any sewer or drain or the Harbour.

269. Any empty container, unless certified by an approved person tainers to be to be free from inflammable vapour, shall be securely closed and

hermetically sealed.

kept closed.

Containers to be sa closed

as to prevent leakage.

Conveyance and storage of benzyl chloride.

270. Any container shall be so closed as to prevent leakage.

271. Benzyl chloride shall not be conveyed or stored except when contained in

(a) a suitable earthenware container having a capacity not exceed. ing two and a half gallons, packed together with effective

absorbent material in a wooden case containing not more than ten gallons of benzyl chloride; or

(b) a suitable lead lined steel barrel or drum having a capacity

pot exceeding fifty gallons.

272. (1) Carbon bisulphide shall not be conveyed or stored except Conveyance when contained in-

and storage of carbon

(a) a suitable hermetically sealed glass or earthenware container bisulphide.

having a capacity not exceeding half a gallon, packed together with effective absorbent material in a hermetically sealed outer container which is either of sufficient strength to withstand rough usage or is protected by an outer case containing not more than three gallons of carbon bisulphide: or

(6) a strong light drum containing not more than fifty gallons of carbon bisulphide and tested by hydraulic pressure to at least forty pounds per square inch.

(2) The neck or stopper of any glass or earthenware container so osed shall at all times be kept uppermost, and the outer case or, if appe, the outer container shall be so marked as to indicate which side should be kept uppermost.

273. Ether shall not be conveyed or stored except when contained Conveyance i-

(@) a suitable hermetically sealed metal or glass earthenware container, having a capacity not exceeding one gallon, packed together with effective absorbent material in a wooden case containing not more than sixteen gallons of ether; or

(6) a steel drum containing not more than one hundred gallons of ether and tested by hydraulic pressure to at least forty pounds per square inch.

and storage of ether.

274. (1) Ethyl chloride or ethylene oxide shall not be conveyed Conveyance and storage stored except when contained in-

of ethyl

(0) a suitable hermetically sealed glass container having a capa- chloride and

city not exceeding two ounces, packed together with pro-oxide. tective material in a strong case containing not more than two gallons of ethyl chloride or ethylene oxide; or

ethylene

(b) a steel drum containing not more than fifty gallons of ethyl chloride or ethylene oxide and tested by hydraulic pressure to al least one hundred pounds per square inch.

(2) No container so used shall contain a quantity of ethyl chloride it elbylene oxide exceeding in weight the number of pounds of water which the container is capable of holding, multiplied by the following filing ratio, namely, 0.79 in the case of ethyl chloride, and 0.72 in the case of ethylene oxide.