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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1854 - SECT 56

Regulations as to sale and keeping of gunpowder.

56. No gunpowder shall be sold within the town by candle or other artificial
light, under a penalty not exceeding one pound for each offence; and no person
shall keep at any time more than ten pounds weight of gunpowder, except by
special permission of the [Ministry of Home Affairs]..., and under such
regulations for its safe custody as [it] may approve and determine, under a
penalty for the first offence of any sum not exceeding one pound, for the
second offence not exceeding three pounds, and for the third or any subsequent
offence not exceeding five pounds, besides forfeiture of all the gunpowder
which shall be found exceeding the aforesaid weight; and the aforesaid
quantity of gunpowder allowed to be kept as aforesaid shall be deposited in a
place separate from all other goods and commodities, and shall be secured by
lock and key, under a penalty not exceeding one pound to be paid for each
offence by the occupier of the premises in which such quantity not so kept and
secured as aforesaid shall be found: Provided always, that nothing herein
contained shall apply to any quantity of gunpowder provided for military or
constabulary purposes.

Ss.5759 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954; 1964 c.14 (NI) s.18 sch.; 1966 c.38 (NI) s.28
sch.3; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9. Ss.6067 rep. by 1898 c.37 s.110 sch.6
Pt.III; 1969 c.30 (NI) s.132 sch.6; 1972 NI16 art.63(3) sch.19 Pt.I. Ss.68, 69
rep. by 1871 c.109 s.28; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

And with respect to the regulation of towns, and to obstructions and nuisances
in the streets, and to the suppression of vagrants and beggars:

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