EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 17 General rules for stores.

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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 17

General rules for stores.

17. In every gunpowder store the following general rules shall be observed;
that is to say,

(1)The provisions of an Order in Council relating to stores, so far as they
apply to such store, shall be duly observed:

(2)There shall not be at the same time in the store an amount of gunpowder
exceeding the amount specified in the license; and

(3)The store 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

(4)The interior of the store, and the benches, shelves, and fittings therein,
shall be so constructed or so lined or covered as to prevent the exposure of
any iron or steel and the detaching of any grit, iron, steel, or similar
substance, in such manner as to come into contact with the gunpowder, and such
interior, benches, shelves, and fittings shall, so far as is reasonably
practicable, be kept free from grit, and otherwise clean; and

(5)The store shall have attached thereto a sufficient lightning conductor,
unless it is made by excavation or is licensed for less than one thousand
pounds of gunpowder; and

(6)Before repairs are done to or in any part of a store, the store shall, so
far as practicable, be cleaned by the removal of all gunpowder and the
thorough washing out of the store; and after such cleaning, these rules shall
cease to apply to the store until gunpowder is again taken there; and

(7)Except after such cleaning, all tools and implements used in or in any
repairs to the store shall be made only of wood, 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 the store of fire, lucifer matches, or
any substance or article likely to cause explosion or fire, or any iron,
steel, or grit; 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 store; and

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

(a)All or any part of the gunpowder in respect to which or being in the store
when 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 17