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295B PDFTitle:DANGEROUS GOODS (GENERAL) REGULATIONSGazette Number:
Regulation:29Heading:Application for licence to manufacture explosivesVersion Date:30/06/1997


Manufacture of explosives

(1) Every application, pursuant to any of the provisions of section 6 of the Ordinance, for any licence to manufacture explosives shall be made in writing addressed to the Authority and shall be accompanied by 2 copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of the area to be occupied by the factory at which the manufacture is to be carried on, and, so far as may be applicable having regard to the nature of the business, every such plan shall include the following particulars-
        (a) the siting of every building, structure, excavation or other work comprising the factory;
        (b) the details of every danger building and the use to which it will be put;
        (c) the distance of any danger building from any other building, structure, excavation or other work situated next thereto;
        (d) the type and maximum quantity of any explosive or any ingredient thereof to be contained at any one time in any danger building;
        (e) the maximum number of persons who will be employed at any one time in any danger building; and
        (f) such other particulars, if any, as the Authority may require to be shown on the plan.
(2) Every plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a statement in writing declaring each type of explosive which it is intended shall be manufactured at the factory.
(3) Every plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Authority shall be endorsed to that effect and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the other retained by the Authority.