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Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996  030
XV: Transitional Provisions
222   Interpretation




                                 PART XV

                  Transitional Provisions---Explosives

   222. Interpretation---In this Part of this Act, unless the context
 otherwise requires,---
     ``Authorised explosive'' means any substance specified in the
         Explosives Authorisation Order 1994:
     ``Detonator'' means a capsule or case which contains such a quantity
         of an explosive of the fifth (fulminate) class that the
         explosion of one capsule or case will communicate itself to
         other like capsules or cases:
     ``Explosive'' means any substance which, immediately before the date
         of commencement of this Act, was an authorised explosive:
     ``Magazine'' means any building, chamber, cave, pit, cellar, hulk,
         floating vessel, or place in which explosives or partly
         manufactured explosives are stored; but does not include a room
         or building in any explosives factory in which small quantities
         of explosives or partly manufactured explosives are stored for
         use in processes in the factory:
     ``Manufacture'', in relation to any explosive, means the process of
         making the explosive, or the process of adapting the explosive
         to make any other explosive, or the process of dividing up into
         component parts or breaking up or unmaking the explosive, or the
         process of remaking or altering or repairing the explosive, or
         the process of separating or picking out defective or damaged
         portions of the explosive:
     ``Occupier'',---
           (a) In relation to any premises or to any part of any
         premises, means the person in actual occupation thereof; and
           (b) In relation to any building or part of a building in which
         any manufacture or trade is carried on, includes the person
         carrying on that manufacture or trade in that building or that
         part:
     ``Premises'' means any land, house, storehouse, shop, factory,
         cellar, yard, building, or enclosed space:
     ``Store'', in relation to explosives, means to retain the explosives
         on any premises; and ``storage'' has a corresponding meaning:
     ``Vehicle'' means any conveyance of any kind whatsoever for use on
         land:
     ``Vessel'' means a ship or boat of any description.
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