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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 16, 1912.

No. 50.

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Order made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 10 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1873), on the 9th day of February, 1912.

Conditions of Licence to keep and use Benzine for the purposes of Dry Cleaning Works.

1. No premises shall be licensed under these conditions unless they are built on sites approved by the Director of Public Works.

2. Benzine shall be stored and used only in rooms of fire-proof construction to be approved by the Director of Public Works. For the purpose of these conditions the term room shall include every room and every store attached to or used in connection with the licensed premises, whether benzine be stored therein or not.

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3. Every room shall be sufficiently well lighted and ventilated at top and bottom with open iron gratings to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.

4. No part of any room shall be situated within a distance of fifty yards from any dwelling house (whether such dwelling house is or is not in the licensee's occupation) or from any anchorage.

5. All doors and windows opening from any room shall be constructed to open out- wards.

6. The sills to all doors opening from any room in which benzine is stored or used shall be at least twelve inches above the floor level.

7. The tanks for the storage of benzine shall be completely sunk below the level of the ground and shall be surrounded and covered on top with sand at least six inches thick. The building in which the tanks are placed shall be at least five feet distant from any other building and shall be of fire-proof construction throughout to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.

8. All tanks, roofs, floors and walls, and all pipes, pumps, machinery and apparatus used in connection with benzine shall at all times be maintained in a thorough state of repair and free from leakage.

9. Unclimbable fences shall be erected on the boundaries of the lot, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.

10. The building shall be provided with a properly constructed lightning conductor carried up above the highest point of the roof over the portion of the premises where benzine is to be stored or used. Such lightning conductor shall be connected with all adjacent metal, and shall be properly connected with the earth to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, and shall be so maintained.

11. No light, fire, lucifer matches or other means of obtaining a flame or ignition, except incandescent electric light, shall be used or allowed within any portion of the buildings in which benzine is used or stored.

12. No smoking shall be permitted on any part of the premises, including all buildings and open spaces, whether the same may or may not be used in connection with any process in which benzine is employed.

13. Two receptacles each containing not less than one hundred pounds of sand shall be kept ready for use in every room where benzine is used or stored.

14. No benzine in addition to that contained in the several parts of the dry cleaning apparatus and the tanks in connection therewith shall be stored or kept on the premises or any part thereof.

15. The total quantity of benzine upon the premises shall in no case exceed six hundred gallons.

16. No alteration shall be made to the tanks, apparatus, or pipes in connection there- with or any of them, without the consent of the Director of Public Works.

17. The premises shall at all times be open for inspection to the Inspector of Dangerous Goods.

COUNCIL CHAMBEK,

9th February, 1912.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils,