Storage of cylinders containing Fiquid
OXYEN,
General provisions relating to storage, ote
First Schedule.
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73. (1) No container containing liquid oxygen shall be stored otherwise than in a place approved by the Authority and marked, to the satisfaction of the Authority, by one or more notices, in English and Chinese, indicating the storage of liquid oxygen.
(2) No container containing liquid oxygen shall be stored other- wise than under the care of a person having reasonable experience of the handling of liquid oxygen.
74. (1) Subsection (1) of section 5 of the Ordinamos shall not apply to the storage or conveyance of any gas specified in the first column of the table to this regulation in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for such gas in the second column of the table:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply where the aggregate of the quantities of all such gases stored in the same store exceeds five cylinders or five gallons of gases where one cylinder is deemed to be equivalent to one gallon.
(2) No person shall use any cylinder to contain any gas specified in the first column of the table to this regulation or store or convey any such gas in any cylinder unless the cylinder bears the label or labels prescribed in the First Schedule indicated by the letter or letters appear- ing in the third column of the table to this regulation opposite the name of such gas, subject to such variation in size and shape as the Authority may approve.
(3) No cylinder containing any gas specified in the first column of the table to this regulation shall be stored together with any goods other than dangerous goods of category 2:
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall apply to the storage of any gas in any quantity not exceeding that specified in the second column of the table.
(4) No person shall store, or cause or permit to be stored, any cylinder containing any gas specified in the first column of the table to this regulation
(a) otherwise than in a cool place and protected from the direct
rays of the sun or other direct source of heat;
(b) above or nearer than two feet from any gas or other burner.
whether connected therewith or not;
(c) except when stored under licence in accordance with the pro- visions of the Ordinance and these regulations, otherwise than resting on the floor of any premises or on the ground or on a stand constructed to the satisfaction of the Authority and rest- ing on the floor or on the ground; or
(d) in any common passageway, stairway or doorway;
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(e) below ground level, except with the permission in writing of
the Authority; or
✪ in any place which is not provided with adequate low level
ventilation.
Gas
TABLE.
Quantity for which licence not required
Label
Note: In this table quantities of gas expressed in gallom refer to the measure-
ment of the gas in a liquid state.
Class 1-Permanent gases
AR
Argon
Boron Trifluoride
Carbon Monoxide
Opal Gad
Fluering
Helium
Hydrogen
Krypton
Methane
Neon
Nitroge
Oxygen
2 cylinders
1 cylinder
DI
B3 and Di
83 and D1
D1
1 cylinder
1 cylinder
B3
1 cylinder
1 cylinder
83
1 cylinder
1 cylinder
|2 cylinders
Class 2–Liquefied gases
5 gallons
Amanowân. Anhydrous Boron Trichloride
1 cylinder
DI
1 cylinder
1 cylinder
Air, liquid
Butadiene
Carbon Dioxide
(unlimited when intended for
use with fire extinguishers)
B3
D1
11
Chlorine
Chlorotrifluoromethane (Arçion 13,
Freon 13) Cyanogen
2 cylinders
B3 and D1
1 cylinder
B3
Dichlorodifluoromethane (Arcton 12,
Freon 12)
2 cylinders
Cyclopropane
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