Hong Kong Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS (GENERAL) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 29

Application for licence to manufacture explosives

Manufacture of explosives

(1) Every application, pursuant to any of the provisions of section 6 of the
Ordinance, for any licence to manufacture explosives shall be made in writing
addressed to the Authority and shall be accompanied by 2 copies of a plan, as
nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of the area to be occupied by the
factory at which the manufacture is to be carried on, and, so far as may be
applicable having regard to the nature of the business, every such plan shall
include the following particulars-

   (a)  the siting of every building, structure, excavation or other work
        comprising the factory;

   (b)  the details of every danger building and the use to which it will be
        put;

   (c)  the distance of any danger building from any other building,
        structure, excavation or other work situated next thereto;

   (d)  the type and maximum quantity of any explosive or any ingredient
        thereof to be contained at any one time in any danger building;

   (e)  the maximum number of persons who will be employed at any one time in
        any danger building; and

   (f)  such other particulars, if any, as the Authority may require to be
        shown on the plan.

(2) Every plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph

(1) shall be accompanied by a statement in writing declaring each type of
explosive which it is intended shall be manufactured at the factory.

(3) Every plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph

(1), or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Authority shall be
endorsed to that effect and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and
the other retained by the Authority.