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295 PDFTitle:DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCEGazette Number:L.N. 35 of 2001
Section:2Heading:InterpretationVersion Date:16/03/2001

In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"carrier" (承運人) includes all persons carrying goods or passengers for hire by land or water;
"dangerous goods" (危險品) means any of the goods or substances to which this Ordinance applies under section 3;
"depot" (倉庫) means any place or vessel designated as a Government Explosives Depot under section 13A; (Added 9 of 1971 s. 3)
"explosive" (爆炸品) includes any substance used or manufactured with a view to producing a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;
"licence" (牌照) includes permit; (Added 8 of 1964 s. 2)
"licensed premises" (領有牌照處所) means any premises in which dangerous goods are permitted to be manufactured or stored by virtue of a licence issued under this Ordinance;
"manufacture" (製造)-

        (a) includes process, compress, liquefy or otherwise alter the nature or form of any substance;
        (b) does not include assembling, mixing, compounding or installing for the preparation of materials within the meaning of pyrotechnic special effects material under the Entertainment Special Effects Ordinance (Cap 560) if the process is authorized by a discharge permit issued under that Ordinance; (Replaced 41 of 2000 s. 61)
"occupier" (佔用人) includes any number of persons and a body corporate and, in the case of any manufacture, includes any person carrying on such manufacture;
"owner" (擁有人), in respect of any vessel, includes a charterer and any person acting as agent for the owner;
"owner" (擁有人), in respect of dangerous goods, includes any person acting as agent for the owner;
"petroleum" (石油) includes crude petroleum, oil made from petroleum or from coal, shale, peat or other bituminous substance, and other products of petroleum or of any of the above-mentioned oils, and mixtures containing petroleum or any of the above-mentioned oils;
"prohibited goods" (違禁品) means any dangerous goods declared by any regulation made under section 5 to be prohibited goods for the purposes of this Ordinance; (Added 8 of 1959 s. 2)
"store" (貯存、貯存所), when used as a verb, includes to have possession or custody of or control over that to which the verb relates; (Added 24 of 1964 s. 2)
"this Ordinance"(本條例) includes regulations made under section 5;
"transit" (過境), in relation to cargo, means cargo which-
        (a) is brought into Hong Kong solely for the purpose of taking it out of Hong Kong; and
        (b) remains at all times in or on the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which it is brought into Hong Kong; (Added 25 of 1973 s. 2)
"vessel" (船隻) includes any ship or boat or junk or any other description of vessel used in navigation;
"warehouse owner" (貨倉擁有人) includes any person owning or managing any warehouse, store, quay, pier or other premises in which goods are deposited.