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DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE, 1956.

(No. 38 of 1956).

DANGEROUS GOODS (CLASSIFICATION) REGULATIONS, 1964. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1956, the Governor in Council has made the follow- ing regulations---

These regulations may be cited as the Dangerous Goods Clation and (Classification) Regulations, 1964, and shall come into operation on commence- the day appointed for the coming into operation of the Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Ordinance, 1964.

roent.

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2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires "flash point" means, in relation to any liquid, the lowest temperature, if any, at which such liquid will give off vapour which will ignite or explode if mixed with air and exposed to a naked light.

Interpre- lation.

3. All substances or articles within the meaning of section 3 of Classifica- the Ordinance are exempt from the application thereof except such tion of

dangerous substances or articles as are specißed in the Schedule.

goods,

4. The Dangerous Goods (Classification) Regulations, 1956, are Revocation. revoked.

In this clas

SCHEDULE.

CATEGORY 1.

Explosives.

Class 1---Gunpowder.

"unpowder" means gunpowder composed essentially of a mixture of sulphur,

saltpetre and carbon.

In this clas

Gunpowder,

Class 2-Nitrate mixture.

"nitrate mixture" means any preparation, other than gunpowder as defined in elags 1, formed by the mechanical mixture of a nitrate with any form of carbon or with any carbonaceous substance not possessed of explosiva properties, whether sulphur be or be not added to such preparation, and whether such preparatión be or be not mechanically mixed with any other non-explosive substance.

Amonospex

Ammospex A

Ammospex C

Lump-Kol Pellet Powder

Nobelite

Nobelite "H"

Nobel's Delay Composition R. 894

Nobel's Explosive No. 999

Nobel's Explosive No. 1243

and

Nobel's Explosive No. 1267 Nobot's Explosive No. 1271 Nobel's Explosive No. 1281

Nobel's Explosive No. 1284 R.D. Composition 202 S.R.C. 2

Stopex

Swiftrain Powder

Buy other explosive containing a perchlorate and which is not included in chases 3, 4, or 5.

(G.N.A. 124/56).