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Amend the enactments relating to petroleum

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and to petroleum-spirit.

HEREAS it is expedient to consolidate the enactments relating to petroleum and to petroleumspirit, and it is desirable that, before the said enactments are consolidated, certain amendments should be made 5 therein:

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of 10 the same, as follows:

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1. For the definitions of the terms "harbour" and Amendment "harbour authority" contained in section two of the of 34 & 35 Petroleum Act, 1871, there shall be substituted the Vict. c. 105. following definitions :

The term "harbour" means any harbour, whether
natural or artificial, and any port, haven,
estuary, tidal or other river, canal or inland
navigation navigated by seagoing ships and,
subject to the provisions of this Act, any dock :
The term "harbour authority" means any person
or body of persons in whom are vested by
or under any Act of Parliament powers and
duties of improving, maintaining or managing
a harbour, so, however, that where, as respects
any dock within a harbour, such powers and

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Amendment

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duties are separately vested by or under any Act of Parliament in any person or body of persons, that person or body shall as respects that dock be the harbour authority and the dock shall be deemed to be a separate harbour:

The term "dock" includes any pier, jetty or other place in or at which ships do or can ship or unship goods or passengers.

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2. Any Order in Council made by His Majesty under section fourteen of the Petroleum Act, 1871, 10 Vict. s. 14. applying any provisions of the Petroleum Acts, 1871 to 1926, to any substance, may direct that such provisions shall apply to the substance with such modifications, if any, as may seem to His Majesty to be desirable having regard to the nature of the substance to which 15 the Order relates.

Repeal and

re-enact-
ment with
amendments
of 59 & 60
Vict. c. 36.
s. 5.

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3. Section five of the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896 (which empowers a Secretary of State to make regulations as to the keeping and use of petroleum or of any other inflammable liquid or fuel for the purpose 20 of light locomotives), shall cease to have effect and the following provisions shall have effect in lieu thereof :(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the keeping and use of petroleumspirit by persons intending to use it for the purpose 25 of any class of motor vehicles, ships, boats, aircraft, or engines specified in the regulations, and any such regulations may exempt the keeping and use of petroleum-spirit by persons intending to use it for the purpose of any such class as 30 aforesaid to which the regulations apply from the operation of any of the provisions of the Petroleum Acts, 1871 to 1928, relating to byelaws as to ships carrying petroleum-spirit, and as to the loading, conveyance, and landing of such spirit 35 in and upon canals, notices by the owner or master of ships carrying petroleum-spirit, labels on vessels containing petroleum-spirit, licences for keeping petroleum-spirit, and regulations as to the conveyance of petroleum-spirit by road.

"(2) In this section the expression motor vehicles includes all mechanically propelled vehicles intended or adapted for use on roads.

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'(3) All regulations made under this section A.D. 1928. shall be laid before each House of Parliament as soon as may be after they are made, and if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent forty days on which that House has sat next after such regulation is laid before it, praying that the regulation may be annulled, it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of any new regulation.

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(4) If any person contravenes or attempts to contravene any regulation made under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds for each day on which the contravention occurs or continues, and the court before whom any person is convicted under this subsection may order that the petroleum-spirit in respect of which the offence was committed, and any vessel in which it is contained, be forfeited or otherwise dealt with in such manner as the court thinks fit."

4.-(1) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that any Regulations class of petroleum-spirit is, by reason of the nature as to classes 25 thereof or of any substance mixed therewith, likely to be dangerous or injurious to health either generally or in the case of any class of persons, he may make such regulations as appear to him to be reasonably practicable and to meet the necessity of the case, and in particular

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(a) requiring the observance of such precautions as
may be prescribed for the protection of persons
employed or engaged in handling or using
petroleum-spirit of that class in connection with
any trade or business; and

(b) requiring persons selling to the public petroleum-
spirit of that class to give, in such manner as
may be prescribed, warning to purchasers of
petroleum-spirit of that class as to the dangers
thereof and the precautions to be observed
with respect thereto; and

(c) the publication and supply of copies of the regula-
tions; and

of petroleum likely to be dangerous or injurious to health.