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EXPLOSIVES ACT 1875 - SECT 6

6. A new factory or magazine for gunpowder shall not be established except on
the site and in the manner specified in a license for the same granted under
this Act.

An applicant for such a license shall submit to the Secretary of State the
draft of a license accompanied by a plan (drawn to scale) of the proposed
factory or magazine, and the site thereof (which plan shall be deemed to form
part of and to be in this Act included in the expression "the license").

The draft license shall contain the terms which the applicant proposes to have
inserted in the license, and shall specify such of the following matters as
are applicable; namely,

(a)The boundaries of the land forming the site of the factory or magazine and
either any belt of land surrounding the site which is to be kept clear, and
the buildings and works from which it is to be kept clear, or the distances to
be maintained between the factory or magazine, or any part thereof, and other
buildings and works; and

(b)the situation, character, and construction of all the mounds, buildings,
and works on or connected with the factory or magazine, and the distances
thereof from each other; and

(c)The nature of the processes to be carried on in the factory and in each
part thereof, and the place at which each process of the manufacture, and each
description of work connected with the factory or magazine, is to be carried
on, and the places in the factory or magazine at which gunpowder and any
ingredients of gunpowder, and any articles liable to spontaneous ignition, or
inflammable or otherwise dangerous, are to be kept; and

(d)The amount of gunpowder and of ingredients thereof wholly or partly mixed
to be allowed at the same time in any building or machine or any process of
the manufacture or within a limited distance from such building or machine,
having regard to the situation and construction of such building, and to the
distance thereof from any other building or any works; and

(e)The situation, in the case of a factory, of each factory magazine, and in
the case of another magazine, of each building forming part of such magazine
in which gunpowder is to be kept, and the maximum amount of gunpowder to be
kept in each factory magazine, and in each such building as aforesaid; and

(f)The maximum number of persons to be employed in each building in the
factory; and

(g)Any special terms which the applicant may propose by reason of any special
circumstances arising from the locality, the situation or construction of any
buildings or works, or the nature of any process, or otherwise.

The Secretary of State, after examination of the proposal, may reject the
application altogether or [may grant a licence in terms of the draft with or
without modification or addition].

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