Dangerous Goods Regulations 1978 - ACT Legislation Register

Part 4 Explosives (general)
Division 4.2
Regulation 39
Safety provisions (general)
(c) having a case which is liable to split or rupture when fired in a
properly constructed weapon of a chambering and calibre
appropriate to a cartridge of its class.
(2) Subject to subregulation (3), a person shall not manufacture, import
into the Territory, keep, convey or sell any explosive, being a safety
cartridge or other cartridge, having a bullet or other projectile
which—
(a) explodes; or
(b) contains an incendiary or tracer composition; or
(c) contains a lachrymatory, nauseating or toxic substance.
(3) Subregulation (2) does not apply to or in respect of—
(a) a marine distress firework; or
(b) the manufacture, importing, keeping, conveyance or sale, with
the authority of the commissioner of police, of any cartridge
for the use of the police force of the Commonwealth or a State
or Territory; or
(c) the importing, with the approval in writing of the chief
inspector, of a cartridge having a bullet or other projectile
which contains an incendiary or tracer composition; or
(d) a cartridge, having a bullet or other projectile approved in
writing.
(4) The chief inspector shall not approve, under subregulation (3) (c), of
the importing of any cartridges unless the chief inspector is satisfied
that they are to be imported—
(a) for conversion into scrap; or
(b) for sale after the bullet or other projectile is replaced by a
bullet or other projectile not of a kind described in
subregulation (2).
page 28 Dangerous Goods Regulations 1978
Effective: 31/12/03-04/04/04
Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au
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