CHAPTER
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INFLAMMABLE LIQUIDS |
ARRANGEMENT OF
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Rules for the storage and handling of volatile
substances and inflammable liquids. |
CHAPTER 217 |
INFLAMMABLE
LIQUIDS |
An Act
relating to the storage, safekeeping and conveyance of inflammable liquids and
for other purposes. | 47 of 1958
E.L.A.O., 1974
5 of 1987 |
[Commencement 18th
September, 1958] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Inflammable Liquids
Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act- | Interpretation. |
"inflammable
liquid" means any liquid which at temperature of or lower than 150 degrees
Fahrenheit gives off an inflammable vapour or which has a flash point of less
than 200 degrees Fahrenheit and shall for the purposes of this Act include
gasoline, benzine, kerosene, paraffin oils, naphtha and bottled gas; |
"Minister"
means the Minister responsible for Explosives and Volatile Substances. |
3. The Minister may make rules- | Rules for the storage and handling of volatile
substances and inflammable liquids. |
(a) to regulate
the mode of storing and the maximum amount of such inflammable Liquids to be
kept in any store; |
(b) for the
purpose of empowering and authorising the police or any other person authorised
by the Minister to enter and inspect any store, warehouse or building where
inflammable liquids are stored or exposed for sale; |
(c) to regulate
the conveyance, loading or unloading of inflammable liquids and the description
and construction of vehicles, ships, boats or containers to be used in the
conveyance of same; |
(d) to
prescribe penalties for breach of the rules not exceeding a fine of five
hundred dollars on summary conviction for any such breach and for the
forfeiture by the order of the court of any inflammable liquid in respect of
which an offence has been committed. |