1964_DANGEROUS_GOODS_(GENERAL)_REGULATIONS — Page 33

1983 Ed.]

Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations [CAP. 295

63. No licence shall be granted or renewed by the Authority for the storage in cylinders of any gas unless the Authority is satisfied in relation to the store that-

(a) the site of the store and the plan referred to in regulation 62 have been approved by him and the construction of the store conforms with the plan; and

(b) the store is provided with such fire extinguishing equip-

ment as he may require.

64. No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, for the storage of any gas, any cylinder or other container except of a type appropriate to the storage of such gas and approved by the Authority.

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[Subsidiary]

Conditions for

grant of licence.

Cylinders to be approved by the Authority.

65. Without prejudice to the requirements of any other regula- Marking of tion relating to marking or labelling, no person shall-

cylinders.

(a) store any cylinder containing any gas or cause or permit

any such cylinder to be stored; or

(b) fill any cylinder with any gas or cause or permit any

cylinder to be so filled,

unless the cylinder is painted in accordance with the colours recom- mended from time to time by the British Standards Institution and promulgated in that Institution's publication entitled British. Standards Specification No. 349, or the head of the cylinder is painted conspicuously--

(i) red, if the gas contained or to be contained therein is

inflammable; or

(ii) yellow, if the gas contained or to be contained therein is

poisonous; or

(iii) as to one half red and the other half yellow, if the gas contained or to be contained therein is both inflammable and poisonous:

Provided that the provisions of this regulation shall not apply to any cylinder which is in the Colony by reason only that it is in course of transit from one place outside the Colony to another place outside the Colony.

66. (1) No person shall use any cylinder, or cause or permit any cylinder to be used, to contain any permanent or liquefied gas unless such cylinder has been tested and examined within the preceding 5 years by a person approved by the Authority for that purpose.

(2) Every cylinder shall be tested-

(a) in the case of a cylinder for any permanent gas-

(i) by hydraulic stretch test to a pressure of not less than 21 MPa, and

(ii) by hydraulic pressure test to a pressure of not less than 20 MPa;

Examination and testing of cylinders for permanent and liquefied gases.

L.N. 119 83.