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AN ACT FOE THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW WITH EESPECT TO THE 
CAERIAGE AND DEPOSIT OF DANGEROUS GOODS. (Aug. 6, 1866.) 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament 
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 
1. The goods or article commonly known as nitro-glycerine or glonoine oil shall be 
deemed to be specially dangerous within the meaning of this Act. 
2. Her Majesty may from time to time, by order in Council, declare that any goods 
named in any such order (other than nitro-glycerine or glonoine oil) are to be deemed 
specially dangerous within the meaning of this Act; and may from time to time amend 
or repeal any such order; and any goods which are by any such order declared to be 
specially dangerous shall, so long as such order is in force, he deemed to be specially 
dangerous within the meaning of this Act. 
3. No person shall deliver any goods which are specially dangerous to any Avarehouse 
owner or carrier, or send or carry or cause to be sent or carried any such goods upon any 
railway or in any ship to or from any part of the United Kingdom, or in any other 
public conveyance, or deposit any such goods in or on any warehouse or quay, unless the 
true name or description of such goods, with the addition of the words specially dan¬ 
gerous, is distinctly written, printed, or marked on the outside of the package, nor in the 
case of delivery to or deposit with any warehouse owner or carrier, without also giving 
notice in writing to him of the name or description of such goods, and of their being 
specially dangerous. And any person who commits a breach of this enactment shall be 
liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, or at the discretion of the court 
to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years. 
4. Provided always, as follows :— 
(1) Any person convicted of a breach of the last foregoing enactment shall not be 
liable to imprisonment, or to a penalty of more than two hundred pounds, if he 
shows to the satisfaction of the court and jury before whom be is convicted 
that he did not know the nature of the goods to which the indictment relates: 
(2) Any person accused of having committed a breach of the said enactment shall 
not be liable to be convicted thereof if he shows to the satisfaction of the court 
and jury before whom he is tried that he did not know the nature of the goods 
to Avhich the indictment relates, and that he could not, with reasonable dili¬ 
gence, have obtained such knowledge. 
5. Where goods are delivered, sent, carried, or deposited in contravention of the said 
enactment the same shall be forfeited, and shall be disposed of in such manner as the 
Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury or (in case of importation) the Commissioners 
of Customs direct, whether any person is liable to be convicted of a breach of the said 
enactment or not. 
6. No warehouse owner or carrier shall be bound to receive or carry any goods which 
are specially dangerous. 
7. In construing this Act the term warehouse owner shall include all persons or bodies 
of persons owning or managing any warehouse, store, quay, or other premises in which 
goods are deposited; and the word carrier shall include all persons or bodies of persons 
carrying goods or passengers for hire by land or water. 
8. The Act of the session of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of her Majesty’s 
reign, chapter sixty-six, “for the safe keeping of petroleum,” is hereby extended and 
applied to nitro-glycerine, and that Act shall be read and have effect as if throughout 
its provisions nitro-glycerine had been mentioned in addition to petroleum; save that so 
much of the said Act as specifies the maximum quantity of petroleum to be kept as 
therein mentioned without a licence shall not apply in the case of nitro-glycerine, and 
any quantity whatever of nitro-glycerine shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions 
of the said Act. 
9. The said Act of the session of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of her 
Majesty’s reign is also hereby extended and applied to any substance for the time being 
declared by any Order in Council under this Act to be specially dangerous, and that Act 
shall be read and have effect as if throughout its provisions the substance to which such 
Order in Council relates had been mentioned in addition to petroleum ; save that the 
quantity of such substance which it shall not be lawful to keep as in the said Act men- 
