Western Australian Repealed Regulations Western Australian Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) In every vessel
loading or discharging explosives within the Port —
(a) an
officer of the vessel shall be constantly and exclusively in charge of the
shipment, stowage or discharge of those explosives;
(b)
every fire and light thereon shall be completely extinguished (except
engine-room fires which shall be carefully banked with damp ashes); and
smoking shall not be allowed on board that vessel;
(c) a
person selected to work in the magazine of that vessel shall not have any
matches, fuses, knives or hooks about his person, or wear boots or shoes
having any iron or steel on them;
(d) any
exposed iron or steel in or near the place where any explosive is being passed
or handled shall be covered with tarpaulin or other effective covering;
(e)
where the Inspector —
(i)
is satisfied that weather conditions are such as will
safely permit the loading or discharging of explosives by net; and
(ii)
has examined every net prior to its use for loading and
discharging of explosives and has found it to be suitable for that purpose;
and
(iii)
has determined the load of explosives to be carried in
any net approved by him, he may authorize the loading or discharging of
explosives in the loads determined by him in any net approved by him but, in
the absence of that authorization, the explosives shall be loaded or
discharged by passing them from man to man, by hand, or by rolling them; and
they shall not in any case be pitched, thrown or slid; and, in any event the
directions of the Inspector as to the loading or discharging of explosives
shall be obeyed;
(f) a
person shall not be allowed to work aloft or in those parts of the rigging
that may be near to a magazine;
(g) any
person, having the charge of the loading or discharging, shall exercise
special care in the selection of men for that work to ensure that none is
affected by drink and a person so affected shall not be engaged for that work;
(h)
where at any time the loading or discharging of explosives is discontinued
before completion the person in charge of the vessel engaged in that loading
or discharging shall cause the hatches of the vessel to be closed and covered
with tarpaulin and shall not permit or suffer any person to remain, and no
person shall remain, in any hold or magazine in that vessel, at any time
during which the loading or discharge is discontinued.
(2) Except as approved
by the Inspector, paraffin, naphtha, petroleum or other volatile oil shall not
be used in any vessel or lighter in the Port, as long as that vessel or
lighter has on board more than 1 000 lb. of any explosives other than of
ammunition and while the vessel is within the limits of the Port.
(3) The provisions of
subregulation (1) (b) apply to every vessel alongside of, or attached to,
a vessel or powder lighter loading or discharging any explosive.