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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 3

Substances to which this Act applies.

3. This Act shall apply to gunpowder and other explosives as defined by this
section.

The term "explosive" in this Act

(1)Means gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powders,
fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other
substance, whether similar to those above-mentioned or not, used or
manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a
pyrotechnic effect; and

(2)Includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percussion caps,
detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation
or preparation of an explosive as above defined.

Gunpowder to be manufactured only at factory lawfully existing or licensed
under this Act.

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