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.