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Dangerous

goods not to be placed on aircraft without permission.

Abatemant of fire risks generally.

Offences and penulties.

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375. (1) No person shall place any dangerous goods or cause any dangerous goods to be placed on any aircraft except with the permission of the Authority or any officer authorized by the Authority for the purposes of this regulation.

(2) Such permission shall only be given in respect of dangerous goods the nature and quantity of which have been declared in writing to the Authority or such officer.

376. (1) Where in the opinion of the Authority a serious risk of fire exists in any store, the Authority may serve a notice in writing upon the proprietor or the person having charge of such store requiring the abatement of such risk within such time as shall be specified in the notice.

(2) Every such notice shall declare the cause of the risk and shull specify what steps must be taken to abate it.

(3) If any person fails to abate any fire risk when so required by a notice issued under this regulation-

(a) he shall be guilty of an offence; and

(b) the Authority may abate the risk and recover any expense

incurred from the person upon whom the notice was served:

Provided that the Authority may, where it considers il reasonable so to do, defray all or any of such expense.

377. (1) The owner of any receptacle in respect of which any of the provisions of regulation 360 is contravened shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(2) The owner of any vehicle in respect of which any of the provi- sions of regulation 361 is contravened shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(3) The person in charge of any vehicle in or in respect of which any of the provisions of regulation 362, 364, 365 or 366 is contravened shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars. (4) The licensee of any store in or in respect of which or containing any dangerous goods in respect of which any of the provisions of regulation 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 374 or 376 is contravened shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(5) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regula- tion 363 or 373 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of out thousand dollars.

(6) Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation 375(1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of eight thousand dollars.

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Prohibition and exemptions,

378. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) the following dangerous goods Prohibited shall be prohibited goods for the purposes of section SA of the Boods. Ordinance-

Ammonium Chlorate.

Calcium Azide, except in aqueous solution not exceeding twenty

per cent of Calcium Azide by weight.

Calcium Carbide which generates spontaneously inflammable gas

when treated with water. Hydrazine Nitrate.

Hydrazine Perchlorate,

Manufactured Fireworks (category 1, class VII, division 1) which explode on impact or which contain any explosive ingredient or mixture other than black gunpowder, charcoal, sulphur, saltpetre, aluminium powder and potassium perchlorate or which have in any single container thereof more than ten grains of any explosive mixture in which potassium perchlorate is an ingredient.

Organic Perchlorates.

(2) Firecrackers which are brought into the Colony on any vessel not carrying passengers and directly transhipped to another vessel to be when out of the Colony and which are packed in the manner specified in regulation 72 for dangerous goods of category 1, class VII, division 1, sbail not be deemed to be prohibited goods for the purposes of paragraph (1).

379. The dangerous goods specified in the first column of the table Exemptions. to this regulation shall be exempted from the provisions of the Ordinance or regulations made thereunder specified opposite thereto in the second column of such table.

Dangerous goods

TABLE.

Any dangerous goods (other than prohibited poods) in the possession of any person for his reasonable personal use in quantily sufficient only for such use.

Low flash oil.

Provisions from which exempled

Section 5(1) of the Ordinance and all regulations made thereunder except those regulations which prohibit absolutely the possession or pre- sence of any particular dangerous goods in any particular circum stances,

The Dangerous Goods (Shipping) (O.NA. Regulations, 1956, and all of these 125/56). regulations except regulations 316, 317, 318, 325(3) and régulations 381

to 384 inclusive.