DANGEROUS GOODS ACT, AMENDMENT.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1436, 23 September 1878, Page 3

DANGEROUS GOODS ACT, AMENDMENT.

The following is the amended form of the above Bill as transmitted from the Legislative Council :

2. The Dangerous Goods Act Amendment Act, 1870, is hereby repealed. 3. So much of the second section of tiro said Act as provides what the term “ petroleum ” shall include is hereby repealed, and in heu thereof it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Act and this Act tiro term “ petroleum ” shall mean and include all such Rock oil, Rangoon oil, Burmah oil, any product of them, and any oil made from petroleum, coal, schist, shale, peat, or other bituminous substance, and any product of them, us gives off an inllammablc vapour at

a temperature of loss than 110 degrees of Fahrenheit’s thermometer.

4. The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, declare that petroleum or any distillate or other'product thereof, or any of the articles or products included in that expression by the last preceding section, shall come within the provisions of the said Act and this Act, or any one or more of such provisions, notwithstanding that they do not give off an inflammable vapor at a temperature of less than 110 degrees of Fahrenheit’s thermometer ; and may from time to time in like manner revoke, alter, or amend any such order. So long as such order shall remain in force, the articles and products therein mentioned shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act and this Act, or such part thereof as in such order shall be prescribed. 5. The Governor may by such order, or from time to time by Order in Council, declare that the provisions of any Order in Council made under section 4 of this Act shall only apply to the parts or places within the colony specified in such order ; and may from time to time in like manner revoke, alter, or amend such order. 0. All local authorities in the said Act mentioned, or any municipal corporation constituted under any Act for the time being in force, are hereby empowered to make by-laws for the efficient administration of the said Act and this Act, and may appoint and remove all necessary officers therefor, and may fix and vary the amount of fees to be paid in respect of licenses issued under the said Act, all which fees shall bo revenue of the local authority of the district wherein they arise respectively. Any such license fee may be annual or for a limited time, and shall bo payable as soon as the same is fixed, in the case of licenses heretofore issued, and in all other cases on the granting of the license. 7. All the powers and duties conferred or imposed on Inspectors of Weights and Measures by the 16th section of the said Act, may also be exercised and performed, as the case may be, by any officer of police, or within any district mentioned in the 7th section of the said Act, by any person authorised to exercise and perform such powers and duties by the local authority thereof, to which the power of granting licenses is given by the said section ; and the said 16th section shall be construed as if after the words “ any Inspector of Weights and Measures,” there were inserted the words “or any police constable or any person authorised by the local authority.” 8. For the purpose of obtaining samples of petroleum for testing, any Inspector of Weights and Measures, and any officer of police is hereby authorised to enter upon any premises, at any reasonable hour in the daytime, in which petroleum is kept, offered, or exposed for sale, and may procure samples thereof, cither by purchasing the same, or by requiring the vendor thereof or the person in charge of the aforesaid premises to show him and allow him to inspect all or any of the vessels in which any petroleum in the possession of the vendor is stored, and the place of the storage thereof, and to give him samples of such petroleum on payment or tender of the value of such samples. 9. If the vendor of any petroleum, or his agent, or servant, or the person in charge of any premises where petroleum is kept, when required in pursuance of the foregoing section, refuses or fails to admit the officer, or refuses or wilfully omits to show all or any of the vessels in which petroleum is stored, or the place of the storage thereof, or to permit the officer to inspect the same, or to give any samples thereof, or to furnish the officer with such light and assistance as he may require, he shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of £2O, to be recovered in a summary manner, and shall also be deemed to be keeping petroleum in contravention of the said Act, and shall be liable accordingly. 10. Section 18 of the said Act is hereby amended by the omission of the words “ the Petroleum Acts,” and the substitution of the words “ this Act ” in lieu thereof.