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EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES.—REGULATIONS. 
[From the “ Victoria Government Gazette ” of 22nd June , 1883. No. 63.] 
At the Executive Council Chamber , Melbourne , the nineteenth day of June , 1883. 
Present : 
Ilis Excellency the Governor. 
Mr. Service Mr. Anderson 
Mr. Berry Mr. Sargood. 
Mr. Kerferd 
Whereas by The Importation and Custody of Gunpowder Statute 1864 and the Act No. 440, and 
The Explosives Act 1877, power is given to the Governor in Council to make and to rescind regulations 
providing for the storago of gunpowder, guncotton, and any substance used for blasting or exploding mines, 
and to license on such conditions as he may deem fit, any private magazine for the storage of any 
such substance as aforesaid : Now therefore Ilis Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of 
the Executive Council, doth by this present order rescind clause 10 of the regulations dated the 28th 
day of November, 1882, and with the advice aforesaid doth substitute the following clause in lieu 
thereof, viz.:— 
*10. Licenses for private magazines may be granted subject to certain conditions. —The Minister of 
Mines may from time to time grant licenses to persons for private magazines at such places as he may think 
fit, subject to the conditions hereinafter specified and such other conditions as to the storage of explosives, 
the position and structure of the magazine and adjacent banks and enclosures, as the circumstances of each 
case may require. 
And the Honorable Jonas Felix Levien, Her Majesty’s Minister of Mines for Victoria, shall give 
the necessary directions herein accordingly. 
ROB. WADSWORTH, 
Clerk of the Executive Council. 
APPENDIX I. 
MANUFACTURE OF EXPLOSIVES. 
REGULATIONS UNDER “ THE EXPLOSIVES ACT 1877.” 
[From the “ Victoria Government Gazette ” of 13th December , 1878. No. 127.\ 
Sections referred to. 
Section 5. Bye-laws or regulations may from time to time be made, altered, or repealed in and for 
any city, town (including the city of Melbourne and the town of Geelong), borough, or shire by the council 
thereof, hereinafter called the local authority, in accordance with the provisions of any Act for the time beino- 
in force relating to local government for any or all of the undermentioned purposes. Provided, however, 
that no such bye-laws or regulations shall be of any force or effect until confirmed by the Governor in 
Council; and that, if any local authority shall not make such bye-law or regulation within six months from 
the commencement of this Act, the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, or repeal any 
such regulations in lieu of such local authority:— 
Clause 1. Licensing factories for the manufacture of explosives. 
Clause 2. Prescribing the conditions upon which licenses will be issued, and the fees payable thereon 
to the local authority. 
Clause 3. Prescribing the rules to be observed by the owner, occupier, and persons employed in the 
factory. 
Clause 4. Prescribing the mode of construction, and the purposes for which such factory or any 
particular part thereof may be used. 
Clause 5. Regulating the attaching of lightning conductors to the factory. 
Clause 6. Delining the part of the factory in which any particular explosive or ingredient shall be 
kept, the quantity that may ho so kept, and the mode in which it shall be packed. 
Clause 7. Regulating the use or retention in the factory of charcoal, oiled cotton, and any articles 
liable to spontaneous ignition, the cleaning of the building, the quantity of any explosives or 
ingredients that may be allowed in the factory or any part thereof at any one time, and 
prescribing the materials of which tools used may be made. 
Clause 8. Regulating in the factory or any part thereof the mixing, sifting, and carriage of any 
explosives, or the ingredients thereof, persons smoking, and the introduction of lire, lucifer 
matches, or any substance or article likely to cause explosion by fire, or any iron, steel, or grit. 
Clause 9. Regulating the employment in the factory of persons under the age of sixteen years. 
Clause 10. Prescribing the period for which licenses may be issued, and tho effect (if any) of change 
of owners or occupiers of the factory ; and 
Clause 11. Generally lor regulating any matter which public safety or convenience may require. 
In the event of any breach (by any act or default) of any bye-law or regulation in any factory— 
(a) All or any part of the explosive or ingredients thereof in respect to which or being in any 
building or machine in respect to which the offence was committed may be forfeited; and 
(b) The occupier shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten pounds, and iu addition (in tho 
case of a second offence) Ten pounds for every day during which such breach continues. 
