EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 10 General rules for factories and magazines.

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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 10

General rules for factories and magazines.

10. In every gunpowder factory and magazine the following general rules shall
be observed:

(1)In a factory every factory magazine, and in any other magazine every
building in which gunpowder is kept, shall be used only for the keeping of
gunpowder, and receptacles for or tools or implements for work connected with
the keeping of such gunpowder; and

(2)The interior of every building in which any process of the manufacture is
carried on or in which gunpowder or any ingredients thereof, either mixed or
partially mixed, are kept, or in the course of manufacture are liable to be
(in this Act referred to as a danger building), and the benches, shelves, and
fittings in such building (other than machinery), shall be so constructed or
so lined or covered as to prevent the exposure of any iron or steel in such
manner, and the detaching of any grit, iron, steel, or similar substance in
such manner, as to come into contact with the gunpowder or ingredients thereof
in such building, and such interior, benches, shelves, and fittings shall, so
far as is reasonably practicable, be kept free from grit and otherwise clean;
and

(3)Every factory magazine and expense magazine in a factory, and every danger
building in a magazine, shall have attached thereto a sufficient lightning
conductor, unless, by reason of the construction by excavation or the position
of such magazine or building, or otherwise, the Secretary of State considers a
conductor unnecessary, and every danger building in a factory shall, if so
required by the Secretary of State, have attached thereto a sufficient
lightning conductor; and

(4)Charcoal, whether ground or otherwise, and oiled cotton, oiled rags, and
oiled waste, and any articles whatever liable to spontaneous ignition, shall
not be taken into any danger building, except for the purpose of immediate
supply and work or immediate use in such building, and upon the cessation of
such work or use shall be forthwith removed; and

(5)Before repairs are done to or in any room in or other part of a danger
building, that room or part shall, so far as practicable, be cleaned by the
removal of all gunpowder, and wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof, and
the thorough washing out of such room or part; and such room or part of the
building after being so cleaned shall not be deemed to be a danger building
within the meaning of these rules until gunpowder or the wholly or partly
mixed ingredients thereof are again taken into it; and

(6)There shall be constantly kept affixed in every danger building, either
outside or inside, in such manner as to be easily read, a statement of the
quantities of gunpowder or ingredients allowed to be in the building, and a
copy of these rules, and of any other part of this Act required by the
Secretary of State to be affixed, and of such part of the license and special
rules made under this Act as applied to the building; and with the addition in
a factory of the name of the building, or words indicating the purpose for
which it is used; and

(7)All tools and implements used in any repairs to or in a danger building
shall be made only of wood or copper or brass or some soft metal or material,
or shall be covered with some safe and suitable material; and

(8)Due provision shall be made, by the use of suitable working clothes without
pockets, suitable shoes, searching, and otherwise, or by some of such means,
for preventing the introduction into any danger building of fire, lucifer
matches, or any substance or article likely to cause explosion or fire, and
for preventing the introduction of any iron, steel, or grit into any part of a
danger building where it would be likely to come into contact with gunpowder
or the wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof; but this rule shall not
prevent the introduction of an artificial light of such construction,
position, or character as not to cause any danger of fire or explosion; and

(9)No person shall smoke in any part of the factory or magazine, except in
such part (if any) as may be allowed by the special rules; and

<(10)Any carriage, boat, or other receptacle in which gunpowder, or the wholly or partly mixed ingredients thereof, are conveyed from one building to another in a factory or magazine, or from any such building to any place outside of such factory or magazine, shall be constructed without any exposed iron or steel in the interior thereof, and shall contain only the gunpowder and ingredients, and shall be closed or otherwise properly covered over; and the gunpowder and ingredients shall be so conveyed with all due diligence, and with such precautions and in such manner as will sufficiently guard against any accidental ignition; and


<(12)In a factory the ingredients in course of manufacture into gunpowder shall be removed with all due diligence from each working building so soon as the process connected with those ingredients which is carried on in such building is completed, and all finished gunpowder shall with all due diligence either be removed to a factory magazine, or sent away immediately from the factory, and such ingredients and gunpowder shall be loaded and unloaded with all due diligence; and


<(13)In a factory all ingredients to be made or mixed into gunpowder shall, before being so made or mixed, be carefully sifted, for the purpose of removing therefrom, so far as practicable, all dangerous foreign matter.


The Secretary of State may, from time to time, by order, make, and when made
rescind and alter, such modifications in the foregoing general rules as may
appear to him to be necessary for adapting the same to floating magazines, and
such modifications shall have effect as if they were contained in this
section.

In the event of any breach (by any act or default) of the general rules in any
factory or magazine

(a)All or any part of the gunpowder or ingredients thereof in respect to
which, or being in any building or machine in respect to which, the offence
was committed, may be forfeited; and

(b)The occupier shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [two hundred
pounds].
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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 10
