EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES ORDINANCE

EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 206.

EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES.

To amend the law relating to explosive substances.

[1st August, 1913.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Explosive Substances
Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, .'explosive substance' shall be
deemed to include any materials for making any explosive
substance; also any apparatus, machine, implement or
materials used, or intended to be used, or adapted for
causing, or aiding in causing, any explosion in or with any
explosive substance; also any part of any such apparatus,
machine or implement.

3. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously causes by any
explosive substance an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or
to cause serious injury to property shall, whether any injury to person
or property has been actually caused or not, be guilty of felony and on
conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for life.

4. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously-

(a)does any act with intent to cause by an explosive substance,
or conspires to cause by an explosive substance, an
explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or to cause
serious injury to property; or

(b)makes or has in his possession or under his control any
explosive substance with intent by means thereof to
endanger life or cause serious injury to property, or to enable
any other person by means thereof to endanger life or cause
serious injury to property,

shall whether any explosion does or does not take place and whether
any injury to person or property has been actually caused or not, be
guilty of felony and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for
twenty years, and the explosive substance shall be forfeited.





5. Any person who makes or knowingly has in his
possession or under his control any explosive substance, in
such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion
that he is not making it or does not have it in his possession
or under his control for a lawful object, shall, unless he can
show that he made it or has it in his possession or under his
control for a lawful object, be guilty of felony and on con-
viction shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years, and
the explosive substance shall be,.forfeited.

6. Any person who by the supply of or solicitation for money, the
providing of premises, the supply of materials or in any manner
whatsoever procures, counsels, aids, abets, or is accessory to, the
commission of any offence under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of
felony and shall be liable to be tried and punished for that offence as if
he had been guilty as a principal.

7. This Ordinance shall not exempt any person from any
indictment or proceeding for any offence which is punishable at
common law or by Ordinance other than this Ordinance, but no person
shall be punished twice for the same criminal act.
Originally 23 of 1913. Fraser 23 of 1913. Short title. Interpretation. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 9 (1). Causing explosion likely to endanger life or property. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 2. Attempt to cause explosion, or making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property. [cf. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 3, s. 3.] Making or possession of explosive under suspicious circumstances. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 4 (1). Position of accessories. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 5. Provisions of Ordinance not to exempt from proceedings under other provisions of law. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 7 (4).

Originally 23 of 1913. Fraser 23 of 1913. Short title. Interpretation. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 9 (1). Causing explosion likely to endanger life or property. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 2. Attempt to cause explosion, or making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property. [cf. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 3, s. 3.] Making or possession of explosive under suspicious circumstances. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 4 (1). Position of accessories. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 5. Provisions of Ordinance not to exempt from proceedings under other provisions of law. 46 & 47 Vict. C. 3, s. 7 (4).

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