CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941 — Page 342

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MERCHANT SHIPPING.

No. 10 of 1899.

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It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosive to anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any other vessel, except by permission of the Harbour Master.

(8) The master of every vessel about to take on board as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive shall give notice to the Harbour Master, and shall take the said vessel into the Gunpowder Anchorage or into such other anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and shall not remove therefrom except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.

(9) No gunpowder or other explosive shall be shipped, landed or transhipped, within the waters of the Colony, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, or between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except with the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.

Vessel not to anchor with- in 500 yards of any other

vessel.

Mode of proceeding

when explo- sives are to be exported.

No gun- powder to be shipped, etc. at night.

without

(10) It shall not be lawful for any person, without the Limit of permission in writing of the Governor, to keep, except at the storage Government Gunpowder Depôt, for any time, however short, written any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive: Provided, never- permission. theless, that any person may keep for his private use only, and

[cf. Regula- not for sale, any quantity of gunpowder not exceeding twenty tions, Table pounds and any number of safety cartridges not exceeding five Q, Reg. 7.]

thousand.

(11) Where any magistrate has reasonable grounds for Search believing that any gunpowder or other explosive is kept on board warrant. any vessel, or in any house or place, in contravention of this section, he may grant a warrant to any police officer to enter the same, and thereupon such officer may so enter and, if necessary, break into the premises and search the same.

Regulations for carrying

out provi- sions of s.

36.

(12) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this section, and for the movement, carriage, landing, shipment and transhipment of explosives, and the precautions to be taken in connexion therewith, and to fix the sums chargeable for the Regulations storage of gunpowder, safety cartridges or other explosives. Tables Every violation or neglect of any such regulations shall render the party so offending liable to the penalties imposed by sub-section (14).

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