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NITROGLYCERINE BILL, 1869 . 
3. In the interpretation of this Act “ nitro-glvcerine ” means the substance called or 
known by that name, or as glonoine oil, and this Act extends to every substance having 
nitro-glycerine in any form as one of its component parts or ingredients in the same 
manner as if it were nitro-glycerine : “ Court” includes any justices, sheriff, or magistrate 
exercising jurisdiction under the powers of this Act: “ person ” includes body corporate, 
mutatis mutandis. 
4. So long as this Act shall be in force, it shall not be lawful for any person to im¬ 
port into any part of the United Kingdom from any other country or place any nitro¬ 
glycerine for any purpose whatever, or— 
(2.) To sell any nitro-glycerine for any purpose whatever, except to workmen in his 
employ: 
(3.) To carry nitro-glycerine along any public highway, canal, river, or navigation : 
(4.) Except with such licence and under such regulations as provided in this Act, to 
make, keep, store, have in his possession, or carry any nitro-glycerine. 
Every person who acts or attempts to act, or permits any person to act, or is party or 
privy to acting, in contravention of this section, shall be liable on summary conviction 
to a penalty not exceeding £100, or, in the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment 
for a period not exceeding twelve months, with or without hard labour. 
5. Every person who shall at any time, while this Act shall be in force, commit any 
of the following offences, that is to say:—Being the master or having the command of 
any ship or vessel, British or foreign, which shall to his knowledge have any nitro-gly¬ 
cerine on board thereof, shall bring such ship or vessel into any port or harbour within 
the United Kingdom, unless compelled to do so by stress of weather only, shall, on 
summary conviction, be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned, with or 
without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one year, or shall forfeit and pay such 
sum of money not exceeding £100 as such Court shall order. 
6. One of her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State may from time to time make, 
vary, and revoke such regulations as he may think necessary for ensuring safety respect¬ 
ing the making, keeping, storing, possession, and carrying of nitro-glycerine. The Se¬ 
cretary of State may, if he think fit, grant, after such inquiry as he thinks necessary, 
a licence to any person to make, keep, store, carry, and move nitro-glycerine for the pur¬ 
poses of the trade of such person, or for scientific purposes, such licence to be for such 
period and subject to such conditions, and revocable and determinable under such cir¬ 
cumstances, as he thinks fit ; but every such licence shall be subject to the provisions of 
this Act and to the said regulations. Any person who violates the conditions of his 
licence shall be deemed to be an unlicensed person. Any expense incurred by the Secre¬ 
tary of State in making inquiry respecting the propriety of granting a licence, or in 
inspecting or ascertaining whether the conditions of such licence are observed, or other¬ 
wise in respect to such licence, shall be defrayed by the applicant for a licence or the 
licensee (as the case may be). 
7. If it is shown to the satisfaction of one of her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of 
State that any substance having nitro-glycerine in any form as one of its component 
parts or ingredients can safely be carried along any public highway, canal, river, or na¬ 
vigation, the Secretary of State may by order permit such substance to be so carried 
with such precautions (if any) as he thinks fit to specify in the order. Such order shall* 
be published in the ‘ London Gazette,’ and thereupon such substance shall, if carried in 
accordance with the provisions of the order, be exempted from the prohibition on 
carriage contained in this Act. Every such order shall be laid before both Houses of 
Parliament as soon as may be after it is made. 
8. Nitro-glycerine may be searched for in the same manner, under the same warrants, 
and subject to the same conditions in, under, and subject to which gunpowder may be 
searched for in pursuance of the Act of the Session of the twenty-third and twenty- 
fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirty-nine ; 
and all the provisions of the said Act relating to searching for gunpowder are hereby in¬ 
corporated with this Act, and shall for the purposes of this Act be construed as if the 
word “gunpowder” in such provisions included nitro-glycerine as defined by this Act, 
and as if the Act therein referred to were this Act, and those provisions shall be construed 
to extend to nitro-glycerine imported or sold contrary to this Act. 
