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Clause 1. — Licensing Factories for the Manufacture of Explosives. 
1. A factory for explosives shall not be allowed except on the site and in the manner specified in a 
license for the same granted under this Act. 
2. An applicant for such license shall submit to the Minister the draft of a license, accompanied by 
a plan (drawn to scale) of the factory or magazine (which plan shall be deemed to form part of and to be in 
this Act included in the expression “the licenso”); and 
3. The draft license shall contain the terms which the applicant proposes to have inserted in the 
license, and shall specify such of the following matters as are applicable, namely:— 
(a) The boundaries of the land forming the site of the factory or magazine, and either any 
belt of land surrounding the site which is to be kept clear, and the buildings and works from 
which it is to be kept clear, or the distances to bo maintained between the factory or magazine, 
or any part thereof, and other buildings and works; and 
( h ) The situation, character, and construction of all the mounds, buildings, and works on or con¬ 
nected with the factory or magazine, and the distances thereof from each other; and 
(c) The nature of the processes to be carried on in the factory, and in each part thereof; and the 
place at which each process of the manufacture, and each description of work connected with 
the factory [or magazine] is to be carried on, and the places in the factory [or magazine] at 
which explosives , and any ingredients of explosives , and any articles liable to spontaneous ignition, 
or inflammable, or otherwise dangerous, are to be kept; and 
(d) The amount of explosives, and of ingredients thereof, to be allowed in any building wholly or 
partly mixed, or any process of the manufacture, or within a limited distance from such building 
[or machine], having regard to the situation and construction of such building, and to the 
distance thereof, from any other building or any works; and 
(e) The situation, in the case of a factory, of each factory magazine, [and in the case of another 
magazine] of each building forming part of such magazine in which explosives are to be kept, 
and the maximum amount of explosives to be kept in each factory magazine, and in each building 
as aforesaid; and 
(, f ) The maximum number of persons to be employed in each building in the factory; and 
(g) Any special terms which the applicant may propose by reason of any special circumstances 
arising from the locality, the situation or construction of any buildings or works, or the nature of 
any process or otherwise. 
4. The Minister, after examination of the proposal, may reject the application altogether, or may 
approve of the draft license with or without modification or addition, and grant to the applicant permission 
to apply to the local authority for their assent to the establishment of the factory on the proposed site , and 
such assent shall be first obtained and forwarded to the Minister before the application for a license is finally 
dealt with. 
Clause 2.— Prescribing the Conditions upon which Licenses will be issued , and the Fees payable thereon 
to the local authority . 
1. On the preliminary approval of an application for a license the applicant shall comploto the 
arrangement of the factory in accordance with the terms of the proposed license, and to the satisfaction of 
the local governing body, and of the inspector, before the license shall be actually issued; and 
2. In every license a clause shall be inserted giving power to the Minister to summarily stop the 
manufacture of explosives at a factory, provided he deem such stoppage necessary in the interest of the public 
safety, and to compel the licensee or his agent to alter or amend the process of manufacture, or to alter or 
re-arrange the buildings in which the same may be carried on; and 
3. In every license a clause shall be insorted authorizing the Governor in Council, upon the 
production of satisfactory evidence that a factory is not being conducted in accordance with the provisions 
of the Act and Regulations relating thereto, and that its further continuance will imperil the public safety, 
to declare the license void; and 
4. There shall be payable in respect of licenses and continuing certificates granted by the Minister 
such fees as may be from time to time fixed by him, not exceeding— 
For factory license, original ... ... ... ... £10 
Ditto, amending ... ... ... ... £5 
Ditto, renewal when lost ... ... ... 5s. 
For importation license, first grant ... ... ... £1 
Ditto, renewal ... ... ... 10s. 
For continuing certificate ... ... ... ... £2 
Such fees shall bo paid by the licensee to the local authority of the district in which the factory is 
situated. 
The Minister may also require an applicant for a new license to pay such sum as the Minister may 
think reasonable for expenses incurred upon any inquiry made by order of the Minister with respect to the 
grant of such license. 
Clause 3. — T J rcscribing the Rules to be observed by the Owner, Occupier , and Persons employed in 
the Factory . 
In every explosive factory and magazine— 
1. The factory or magazine, or any part thereof, shall not bo used for any purpose not in accordance 
with the license ; and 
2. The terras of the license shall bo duly observed, and the manufacture or keeping, or any process 
in or work connected with the manufacture or keeping of explosives shall not be carried on except in 
accordance with those terms ; and 
3. The factory or magazine and every part thereof shall be maintained in accordance with the 
license; and any material alteration in the factory or magazine by enlarging or adding to the site, or by 
externally enlarging or adding to any building thereon, or by altering any mound otherwise than by enlarge¬ 
ment, or by making any new work, shall not be made except in pursuance of an amending license granted 
under the Aet. 
