Explosives Act 1875

97 Exemption of Government factories, &c. from the Act

This Act shall not apply—

(1) To any factory, magazine, store, premises, wharf, place, or explosive under the control of a Secretary of State, the Commissioners of the Admiralty, or other department of the Government, or otherwise held for the service of the Crown, or to the manufacture, keeping, or importation of such explosive; or

(2) To any of Her Majesty's ships, boats, or carriages; or

(3) To the keeping or making up, or adapting for the use of any explosive issued by or by the authority of a Secretary of State for the use of any volunteer corps or administrative regiment, or by or by the authority of the Commissioners of the Admiralty for the use of any force under the control of those commissioners, so far as such explosive is kept, made up, and adapted for use in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of State or the said commissioners, as the case may be; or

(4) To any storehouse appointed for receiving any such explosive as last above mentioned in pursuance of section twenty-six of the [26 & 27 Vict. c. 65.] Volunteer Act, 1863, and any Act amending the same, or otherwise, if such storehouse is approved by the Secretary of State or the Commissioners of the Admiralty, as the case may be, as a fit place for the storing of such explosive, and is managed in accordance with the regulations of a Secretary of State or such commissioners for the management of such storehouses, or for the management of the like storehouses appointed for the use of Her Majesty's army or navy; or

(5) To the conveyance of any explosive under the control of a Secretary of State, the Commissioners of the Admiralty, or other department of the Government, or to the conveyance of any explosive otherwise held for the service of the Crown when the same is being conveyed in accordance with the regulations of a Secretary of State or the Commissioners of the Admiralty or other department of the Government.

Provided that every person who enters without permission or otherwise trespasses upon any factory, magazine, or storehouse above in this section mentioned or the land immediately adjoining thereto in the occupation of the Crown or of a Secretary of State or the Commissioner of the Admiralty or other department of the Government or if it adjoin such a storehouse in the occupation of the officer or person in whom such storehouse is vested, and any person found committing any act tending to cause explosion or fire in or about such factory, magazine, or storehouse, shall be liable to the like penalty, and may be removed and arrested in like manner as if this section had not been enacted and this Act applied to such factory, magazine, or storehouse, as above in this section mentioned.