1923_DANGEROUS_GOODS_ORDINANCE__1873 — Page 2

DANGEROUS GOODS.

No. 1 of 1873.

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(c) "Warehouse owner" includes all persons owning or managing any warehouse, store, quay, pier, or other premises in which goods are deposited.

3. The following goods, viz., petroleum, nitroglycerine or Enumera- glonoine oil, gun cotton, fulminate. of mercury or of other tion of dan- metals, dynamite, blasting powders, gunpowder, fuses (other gorous goods. than safety fuses), rockets, detonators, cartridges, ammuni- tion of all descriptions (other than percussion caps or priming caps or empty sporting cases), phosphorus, aqua fortis, vitriol, naphtha and benzine, shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of this Ordinance.

petroleum.

4. For the purposes of this Ordinance, "petroleum" Definition of includes crude petroleum oil made from petroleum, coal, 3435 Vict. shale, peat or other bituminous substances and other products c. 105, s. 3. of petroleum and mixtures containing petroleum.

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5.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Regulations. make regulations for any of the following purposes :----

(a) for declaring that any substances whatever shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of this Ordinance;

(b) for declaring that any substances which by virtue of the provisions of this Ordinance are deemed to be dangerous goods shall not be deemed to be dangerous goods;

(c) for regulating the possession, landing, shipment, tran- shipment, storage and movement of dangerous goods;

(d) for providing for the issue of licences for prescribing the conditions of such licences, and for fixing the fees to be paid for such licences;

(e) for exempting any substance, or any specified quantity of any substance, or any specified form of any substance, from any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Order in Council or regulation made under this Ordinance;

As amended by Law. Rev. Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923. Sec. As amended by No. 19 of 1922.

Under this section the following have been declared to be dangerous goods :----

Gelatine dynamite, cheddite, gelignite, blasting gelatine, bobbinite, compressed [12th Oct.,

· gunpowder, rackarock, chlorate of potash mixture for rackarock.

Nitrobenzene or oil of mirbane (exceeding one pound in weight).

Picric explosive (including picric acid exceeding one pound in weight, picrates, picric and picrate mixtures), unless such picric explosive is mixed with not less than half its own weight of water.

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