Gunpowder Stores.U.K.
Regulations which are to form part of the terms of every continuing certificate for a gunpowder store
(1)The store shall be exclusively for the use of a mine, quarry, colliery, or factory for safety fuzes.
(2)The amount of gunpowder in the store shall not exceed, if the store is well and substantially built of brick or stone, [F12,000 kilograms] , and in any other case [F1150 kilograms].
(3)Where the amount of gunpowder in the store exceeds [F1150 kilograms] , such store shall, unless otherwise authorised before the passing of this Act by a certificate of the Secretary of State, be within [F1180 metres] of the mine, quarry, colliery, or factory for safety fuzes, or one of the mines, quarries, collieries, or factories for safety fuzes for the use of which such gunpowder is kept, and not within [F1180 metres] of any inhabited house without the consent in writing of the occupier of such house.
(4)Where such certificate has been given, the conditions on which it was given shall be duly observed as if they were contained in this schedule.
(5)Where the amount of gunpowder does not exceed [F1150 kilograms] , the store shall be within [F1180 metres] of the mine, quarry, colliery, or factory for the use of which it is erected, and unless it was erected and used for the said purpose before the passing of the M1Gunpowder Act 1860, shall not be within [F1180 metres] from any inhabited house without the consent in writing of the occupier of such house.
(6)The store shall not be within the city of London or Westminster or within [F15 kilometres] of either of them, or within any borough or market town or [F11.6 kilometres] of the same, or within [F13 kilometres] of any palace or house of residence of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or within [F13 kilometres] of any gunpowder magazine belonging to the Crown, or within [F1800 metres] of any parish church.