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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 4

4. The manufacture of gunpowder shall not, nor shall any process of such
manufacture, be carried on except at a factory for gunpowder either lawfully
existing or licensed for the same under this Act.

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the making of a small
quantity of gunpowder for the purpose of chemical experiment and not for
practical use or for sale.

If any person manufactures gunpowder or carries on any process of such
manufacture at any place at which he is not allowed by this section so to do,
he shall be deemed to manufacture gunpowder at an unauthorised place.

Where gunpowder is manufactured at an unauthorised place

(1)All or any part of the gunpowder or the ingredients of gunpowder which may
be found either in or about such place or in the possession or under the
control of any person convicted under this section, may be forfeited; and

(2)The person so manufacturing shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
[five hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months
or to both such penalty and imprisonment].

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