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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 37

Byelaws as to conveyance by road or otherwise, or loading of gunpowder.

37. The Secretary of State may from time to time make, and when made, rescind,
alter, or add to, byelaws for regulating the conveyance, loading, and
unloading of gunpowder in any case in which byelaws made under any other
provision of this Act do not apply, and in particular for declaring or
regulating all or any of the following matters; that is to say,

(1)Regulating the description and construction of carriages to be used in the
conveyance of gunpowder as merchandise; and

(2)Prohibiting or subjecting to conditions and restrictions the conveyance of
gunpowder with any explosive, or with any articles or substances, or in
passenger carriages; and

(3)Fixing the places and times at which the gunpowder is to be loaded or
unloaded, and the quantity to be loaded or unloaded or conveyed at one time or
in one carriage; and

(4)Determining the precautions to be observed in conveying gunpowder, and in
loading and unloading the carriages used in such conveyance, and the time
during which the gunpowder may be kept during such conveyance, loading and
unloading; and

(5)Providing for the publication and supply of copies of the byelaws; and

(6)Generally for protecting, whether by means similar to those above mentioned
or not, persons or property from danger; and

(7)Adapting on good cause being shown the byelaws in force under this section
to the circumstances of any particular locality.

The penalties to be annexed to any breach, or attempt to commit any breach, of
any such byelaws may be all or any of the following penalties, and may be
imposed on such persons and graduated in such manner as may be deemed just,
according to the gravity of the offence, and according as it may be a first,
second, or other subsequent offence, that is to say, pecuniary penalties not
exceeding [one hundred pounds] for each offence, and ten pounds for each day
during which the breach continues, and forfeiture of all or any part of the
gunpowder in respect of which, or being in the carriage in respect of which,
the breach of byelaw has taken place.

For the purpose of any mode of conveyance which is not a conveyance by land
this section shall be construed as if ship and boat were included in the term
carriage.

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