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Interpre- tation.

Application

for licence to manufacture or store

dangerous goods of category 7.

Conditions

for grant of licence.

(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regula- tion 147 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(4) Is the event of any contravention of any of the provisions of regulation 141 or 142 the licensee of the store at which the contravention occurred shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

PART VIII.

Dangerous Goods OF CATEGORY 7 (STRONG SUPPORTERS OF COMBUSTION),

149. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires- "dangerous goods" means dangerous goods of category 7.

150. (1) Every application, pursuant to any of the provisions of section 5 of the Ordinance, for any licence to manufacture or store any dangerous goods shall be made in writing addressed to the Authority and, in the case of any application for a licence to store any such goods, shall be accompanied by two copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the store, and every such plan shall include the following particulars-

(a) the siting of the store;

(b) the material of which it is or is to be constructed;

(c) such other particulars, if any, as the Authority may require

to be shown on the plan.

(2) Every plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a statement in writing declaring the nature of the dangerous goods to be stored and the maximum quantities thereof in respect of which the licence is required.

(3) Every plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Authority shall be endorsed to that effect and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and one copy retained by the Authority.

151. 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 150 have been approved by him and the construction of the store conforms with the plan; and

(6) the store is provided with such fire extinguishing equipment as

be may require.

on storage

152. No person shall store. or cause or permit to be stored, any Restriction dangerous goods of category 7 in any store together with any goods together other than dangerous goods of that category.

of certain substancra

in stores.

153. (1) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to Geners!

provisions be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the relating to able to this regulation unless such substance is contained in maio or storage. 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 substance specified in the first columa of the table to this regulation to such an extent as to leave within the container less than the minimum air space or ullage 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 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 fourth column of the table opposite the type of packing specified for that substance in the second column of the table.

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

Conveyance

and packing of dangerous goods of category 7.

(5) 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 every main or inner packing and every protective or outer packing containing such substance bears the label or labels prescribed in the First Schedule as indicated by the letter or First letters appearing in the sixth column of the table opposite that substance:

Schedule.