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Licence for

No. 14 of 1901. GUNPOWDER AND FIREWORKS.

4. Outside such limits or parts no person shall manufacture manufacture or cause to be manufactured in the Colony any gunpowder,

of gunpow-

der outside

limits.

Application for licence for factory, etc.

c. 17, s. 6.

except at a factory established on the site and in the manner specified in a licence for the same granted under this Ordinance.

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5.-(1) An applicant for a licence under section 4 shall, if required to do so, submit for the approval of the Governor a statement accompanied by a plan (drawn to scale) of the pro- posed factory and the site thereof (which plan shall be deemed to form part of and to be included in the expression "the licence ").

(2) The draft licence shall contain the terms which the applicant proposes to have inserted in the licence and shall specify such of the following matters as are applicable—

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(a) the boundaries of the land forming the site of the factory and either any belt of land surrounding the site which is to be kept clear, and the buildings and works from which it is to be kept clear, or the distances to be maintained between the factory or any part thereof and other buildings and works;

(b) the situation, character and construction of all the mounds, buildings and works on or connected with the factory and the distances thereof from one another;

(c) the nature of the processes to be carried on in the factory and in each part thereof, and the place at which each process of the manufacture, and each description of the work connected with the factory, is to be carried on, and the places in the factory at which gunpowder and any ingredients of gunpowder, and any articles liable to spontaneous ignition, or inflammable or otherwise dangerous, are to be kept;

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(d) the amount of gunpowder and of ingredients thereof, wholly or partly mixed, to be allowed at the same time in any building or machine or any process of the manufacture or within a limited distance from such building or machine, having regard to the situation and construction of such building and to the distance thereof from any other building or any works;

(e) the situation of each factory magazine and the maximum amount of gunpowder to be kept in each factory magazine and in each such building as aforesaid;

* As amended by No. 25 of 1931 [16.10.31].