Explosives Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 95.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXPLOSIVES ACT 1952-1957.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Explosives Act 1952-1957.

Dated this 20th day of November, 1959.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE EXPLOSIVES REGULATIONS. 

Vehicles on which explosives to be loaded.

1. Regulation 13 of the Explosives Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) Goods consisting of Commonwealth explosives shall not be loaded on to a specially adapted vehicle unless the vehicle is equipped with a fire extinguisher capable of extinguishing an outbreak of fire in those goods.”.

Measures to be taken after unloading completed.

2. Regulation 42 of the Explosives Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b)and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(b)cause any signboard on the vehicle that would lead to the belief that the vehicle was loaded with explosives—

 (i) to be so covered or placed that it cannot be read; or

(ii) to be removed from the vehicle.”.

Minister or authorized person may make orders.

3. Regulation 47 of the Explosives Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(c) subject to the next succeeding regulation, direct that a vessel in which Commonwealth explosives are, or are to be, loaded may, for a purpose or purposes specified in the order, be berthed in a port so specified.”.

Orders directing berthing of vessels.

4. Regulation 48 of the Explosives Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “moored or”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “moored or”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3rd December, 1959.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No, 110.

6786/57.—PRICE 3D. 9/1.9.1959.

 

Orders under regulation 47 (1.) (c).

5. Regulation 53 of the Explosives Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“53. An order made by virtue of paragraph (c)of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 47 of these Regulations shall be addressed to a particular person and shall take effect at the expiration of a period of forty-eight hours after the service of the order on that person or at such later time as is fixed by the order.”.

First Schedule.

6. The First Schedule to the Explosives Regulations is amended by inserting under the heading “Group 8.”, after the words—

“Motors, rocket, H.C., loose.”,

the words—

“Motors, rocket, L.C., loose.”.

Second Schedule.

7. The Second Schedule to the Explosives Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting paragraph 6 of Part II. and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“6. If the vehicle is of the type known as a semi-trailer, the vehicle—

(a)shall not be fitted with an electric storage battery in a position directly below that part of the body that carries the load;

(b)shall not be fitted with an exhaust pipe that extends beneath, or comes in contact with, that part of the body that carries the load; and

(c) shall not be fitted with a fuel tank in a position directly below that part of the body that carries the load unless the fuel tank is wholly mounted on that part of the vehicle known as the prime mover.”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph 7 of Part III.

 

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.