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Custody of

smoking requisites.

Storage fees.

Schedule Pan 1.

Delivery fees,

Schedule,

Part 11.

Destruction of cxplosives.

Offences,

11. The manager or a deputy manager of a depot may give such directions as he thinks fit as to the custody of any tobacco, matches, lights and other smoking requisites in the possession of persons-

(a) who are in or near a depot while any explosive is being received into or removed from the depot, or is being transhipped to or from the depot; or

(b) who are in or near any vessel which is unloading, loading

or transhipping the explosive.

12. (1) The person at whose request any explosive is stared in a depot shall pay to the Government the fee specified in Part 1 of the Schedule for the storage of the explosive.

(2) Any fee which is payable under paragraph (1) shall be paid within twenty-one days after the last day of the period of storage for which it is payable.

(3) If any fee is not paid within the time specified in paragraph (2), the Commissioner may cause the explosive in respect of which such fee is payable to be sold, and may deduct the fee and any other expenses incurred by the Government in the sale of the explosive from the proceeds of sale, and shall refund the balance of the proceeds of sale to the person by whom the fee was payable.

13. The person at whose request any explosive is delivered by the Government from a depot to any other place shall pay to the Government the fee specified in Part II of the Schedule for such delivery.

14. The Commissioner may cause any explosive which is stored in a depot to be destroyed—

(a) if in bis opinion the condition of the explosive is such as to threaten the safety of a depot or of any persons therein; or

(b) if any fee payable under regulation 12 for the storage of the explosive has not been paid and the Commissioner is unable to sell the explosive under paragraph (3) of that regulation within six months after the fee becomes due.

15. (1) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 3, paragraph (1) of regulation 4, or regulation 5, 8, 9 or 10 shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who contravenes a direction given under regulation 11 by the manager or a deputy manager of a depor shall be guilty of an offence.

16. Any person who is guilty of an offence under these Penalty. regulations shall be liable upon conviction to a line of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

SCHEDULE.

FEES.

PART 1.

(reg. 12(1) & (3)

Fees per consignment for the storage of explosives in a depot-

(a) where the amount of the explosives does not exceed 100 lb. in weight

(B) where the amount of the explosives

exceeds 100 lb. in weight

PART II

Fee for delivery of explosives by the Govemment from a depot to any other place

Council Chamber,

16th March 1971,

$4.00 per month or part of A month;

$2.00 per month or part of a month for every 50 lb. weight or fractional part of 50 lb. weight.

3130.00 per delivery,

A Mehrey.

Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

(This Nore is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport),

These regulations provide for the reception, storage and removal

of explosives at Government Explosives Depois.

2.

The regulations set out the duties of persons bringing explosives to depots for storage and the safety measures to be observed by persons

in the vicinity of depots while explosives are being received, removed or transhipped.