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This Act may be cited as “The Explosives Act 1875.”
Textual Amendments
F1S. 2 repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)
This Act shall apply to gunpowder and other explosives as defined by this section.
The term “explosive” in this Act—
(1)Means gunpowder, nitro–glycerine, dynamite, gun–cotton, blasting powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above–mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and
(2)Includes fog–signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.