EXPLOSIVES: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

EXPLOSIVES: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

EXPLOSIVES REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    REGULATION

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Exceptions

PART I
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OBSERVANCE

    4.    Observance of Regulations

    5.    Appointment of competent persons

PART II
PERMITS AND LICENCES

    6.    Import permits

    7.    Applications for import permits

    8.    Licences to manufacture

    9.    Dealers’ licences

    10.    Applications for dealers’ licences

    11.    Sale limited to persons with permit to possess

    12.    Register of explosives

    13.    Records and returns

    14.    Prohibition of sale of defective explosives

    15.    Storage licences

    16.    Suspension of storage licence

    17.    Authorized storage boxes

    18.    Temporary storage

    18A.    Transporter of explosives to have copy of licence

PART III
CONSTRUCTION OF MAGAZINES

    19.    Approval to be obtained before construction

    20.    Construction of magazines

PART IV
MANAGEMENT OF MAGAZINES

    21.    Magazine masters

    22.    Articles which shall be kept in a magazine

    23.    Articles which may not be kept in a magazine

    24.    Forms to be kept in or near a magazine

    25.    Floors to be kept clean

    26.    Protection from fires

    27.    Restrictions on persons entering magazines

    28.    Stacking explosives

    29.    Care in handling explosives

    30.    Loitering near magazine

    31.    Illegal entry into magazine

    32.    Closing down magazine

    33.    Duties of licence holder

PART V
AMMONIUM NITRATE

    34.    Application and definition

    35.    No permit or licence required for certain purposes

    36.    Records to be kept

    37.    Construction of stores for ammonium nitrate

    38.    Method of storage

    39.    Storage precautions

PART VI
BLASTING LICENCES

    40.    Appointment of shot firers

    41.    Applications for blasting licences

    42.    Issue of blasting licences

    43.    Suspension of blasting licences

    44.    Custody of blasting licence

    45.    Blasting licence not transferable

PART VII
HANDLING EXPLOSIVES

    46.    Safe transport and handling of explosives

    47.    Secretion of explosives

    48.    Persons allowed to assist shot firer

    49.    Primers and charges

    50.    Drill holes

    51.    Thunderstorms

    52.    Persons allowed to assist shot firers during charging

    53.    Tamping rods

    54.    Stemming

    55.    Preparation of charges

    56.    Use of blasting cartridges

PART VIII
FIRING AND MISFIRES

    57.    Shot firers and foreman shot firers

    57A.    Foreman shot firer and shot firer to maintain records

    58.    Precautions before firing

    59.    Electrical firing apparatus

    60.    Precautions in electrical firing

    61.    Precautions after firing

    62.    Suspected misfires

    63.    Misfires

    64.    All clear signal

PART IX
SPECIAL UNDERGROUND REGULATIONS

    65.    This Part to prevail

    66.    Definition

    67.    Foremen

    68.    Return after blasting

    69.    Safety of working place

    70.    Examination before drilling

    71.    Explosives storage

    72.    Smoking and lights

    73.    Restrictions on transport and charging

    74.    Electric cables

    75.    Position of firing cable

    76.    Cleaning holes

    77.    Testing water-blast

    78.    Operation of water-blast

PART X
DANGEROUS PRACTICES AND ACCIDENTS

    79.    Dangerous practices

    80.    Precautions to prevent accidents

    81.    Reporting accidents

PART XI
PENALTIES

    82.    General penalty

EXPLOSIVES REGULATIONS

under s.23

G.N. 285/1971
82/1978
113/1982
107/1985
53/2023

1.    Citation

    These Regulations may be cited as the Explosives Regulations.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “capped fuse” means a length of safety fuse to one end of which a detonator has been attached;

    “detonating fuse” means a cord-like device used in blasting operations containing an explosive which will explode at high velocity when suitably initiated by a detonator, such explosion initiating explosions in other lengths of detonating fuses or other explosives in close proximity;

    “direct supervision” means that the person being supervised is within normal sight or hearing of the person supervising;

    “Form” means one of the forms set out in the First Schedule;

    “magazine” means any building or structure used or intended to be used for the storage of explosives;

    “manager” means the person responsible for the management of the site at which any blasting operations are carried out;

    “misfire” means a drill hole or part thereof in which the blasting material, or any portion thereof, charged into the hole has failed to explode;

    “primer” means a cartridge into which the detonator of a capped fuse, or electric detonator has been inserted;

    “Registrar of Firearms” means the Registrar of Firearms appointed under the Firearms Act;

    “safety fuse” means a fuse for blasting which burns and does not explode, and which does not contain its own means of ignition, and which is of such strength and construction, and contains an explosive in such quantity that the burning of such fuse will…