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Explosives Act
14. Application for licence to erect factory
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
14. Application for licence to erect factory
(1)Every person who desires to erect or establish any factory for the manufacture of explosives shall make application in writing to the Commissioner accompanied by a draft licence together with diagrams or plans of the proposed factory, on such scale or scales as the Commissioner may require, and the application shall set forth and specify—(a)the situation and extent or area of the land on which it is proposed to erect the factory, together with the area of land surrounding the same which it is proposed to leave free of buildings;(b)the several distances which it is proposed to maintain between the several danger buildings respectively, and between those danger buildings and other buildings or works used in connection with the factory;(c)the materials to be used in, and the mode of construction of, all danger buildings and works on, in or used in connection with the factory;(d)the nature of the processes of manufacture to be used in the factory, the place at which each process of manufacture and every description of work is intended to be carried on in the factory and the places on or in which it is proposed to keep in store any ingredients of explosives or other articles liable to spontaneous ignition or combustion or otherwise dangerous;(e)the quantity of explosives, or of any partly or wholly mixed ingredients thereof, which it is proposed to use simultaneously in or near any building or in or near any machine;(f)the maximum number of persons of each race which it is proposed to employ in each danger building in the factory;(g)any further particulars which the Commissioner may require, having regard to any special circumstances arising from the locality or construction of any buildings or works, or to the nature of any process to be carried on therein.(2)The Commissioner may refuse any such application or direct that a public inquiry be held, as is provided in section 15, as to the expediency of granting the application.(3)Any person dissatisfied by a decision of the Commissioner under this section may appeal against such decision to the Cabinet Secretary, whose decision shall be final.