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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 14

14. A factory or magazine for gunpowder used at the time of the passing of
this Act shall not be deemed to be a lawfully existing factory or magazine
within the meaning of this Act unless the occupier thereof apply for and
obtain in manner provided by this Act a certificate (in this Act referred to
as a continuing certificate) in respect of such factory or magazine.

The occupier desirous of obtaining such certificate shall, before the
expiration of three months after the commencement of this Act, send to the
Secretary of State an application for such certificate, stating his name,
address, and calling, and the situation of his factory or magazine, and
accompanied with such particulars respecting the factory or magazine and the
site thereof, and the mounds, buildings, and works thereon or connected
therewith, and such copies of any plans in the possession of the occupier, as
the Secretary of State may deem necessary for enabling him to make out the
certificate.

The Secretary of State upon receiving such application shall grant the
continuing certificate for the factory or magazine to which the application
relates, and shall insert therein, by reference to a plan (which shall be
deemed part of the certificate) or otherwise, such particulars as he may
consider sufficient to identify the factory or magazine and indicate the site
and all the existing mounds, buildings, and works thereon or connected
therewith: the plan so referred to may be either the plan sent by the occupier
or such other plan as the Secretary of State may cause to be made for the
purpose.

The continuing certificate shall specify the maximum amount of gunpowder to be
kept if the certificate is for a factory in each factory magazine, or in all
the factory magazines of the factory, and if for a magazine in each building
in the magazine, or in all the buildings of the magazine, and the amount so
specified, where the maximum amount so to be kept is at the passing of
this Act limited by any Act or by license or otherwise, shall be that amount,
and where there is no such limitation, shall be the maximum amount which the
factory magazine, or all the factory magazines of the factory, or the building
or all the buildings of the magazine, was or were capable of holding on the
first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

The regulations in Part One of the First Schedule to this Act shall be deemed
to form part of the terms of a continuing certificate for a factory.

The land forming the site bounded as described in the certificate shall, with
every mound, building, and work thereon, for whatever purpose, be deemed for
the purpose of this Act, to be the factory or magazine referred to in the
certificate.

Where a license has been obtained before the twenty-fifth day of February one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, for a factory or magazine for
gunpowder, and such factory or magazine has not been completed before the
passing of this Act, such factory or magazine shall be deemed to be, for the
purposes of this section, a factory or magazine for gunpowder used at the time
of the passing of this Act:

Provided that

(1)The particulars to be stated in the continuing certificate shall, as
regards such mounds, buildings, and works as are not completed at the date of
the certificate, relate to the same as designed on the commencement of the
construction of the factory or magazine; and

(2)The maximum amount of gunpowder to be specified in the continuing
certificate as being allowed to be kept in any building shall, subject to the
provisions of any Act or license, be the maximum amount which such building
was designed on the commencement of the building thereof to hold, or such less
amount as it is completed or holding at the time of the passing of this Act.

For the purposes of this Act, a continuing certificate shall (save as
otherwise expressly provided) be deemed to be a license, and the factory or
magazine, as the case may be mentioned therein to be a factory or magazine
licensed under this Act, and the provisions of this Act shall be construed
accordingly.

Provided that

Proviso (1) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/341

(2)Such factory or magazine, if the certificate is determined by the
discontinuance of the business carried on therein, shall cease to be deemed an
existing factory or magazine.

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