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No. 10 of 1899.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

3:

[cf. 57 & 58 extinguish such fire or light, doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses incurred by the Harbour Master in such extinction may be recovered from such owner or person as aforesaid.

Vict. c. 60, s. 667 (4).]

Vessels and buildings for storage of explo- sives.

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PART VIII.

IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSives.

36.—(1) The Governor may provide all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder and other explosives.

Government Gunpowder Depôt.

Vessel not to

(2) Such vessels or buildings shall be termed the Govern- ment Gunpowder Depôt, and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may be received from the Governor; and such vessels or build- ings shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may deem expedient.

(3) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to anchor with- anchor within five hundred yards of the Government Gunpowder

Depôt, except by permission of the Harbour Master.

in 500 yards of Depôt.

Harbour

furnished

(4) The master, agent or consignee of every vessel arriving Master to be in the Colony, having on board thereof as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive, shall, immediately on arrival and before the discharge from the vessel of any of such gun- powder or other explosive, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of the same, the marks of all the packages, and the names of the consignees, if he knows the same.

with parti- culars of explosives arriving in the Colony.

Master to

take vessel to specified place.

Red flag to be exhibited.

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(5) The master of every such vessel shall, on arrival, take the same to the Gunpowder Anchorage or to the place which may be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom, without the written per- mission of the Harbour Master, until the cargo of explosives has been discharged or for the purpose of going to sea.

(6) The master of every vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosive, and whilst engaged in the transhipment of the same, shall exhibit a red flag at the highest mast-head.

* As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32].