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    Inflammable Liquids and Substances Act, No 51 of 1952

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    This document outlines the Revised Laws of Mauritius regarding inflammable liquids and substances. It establishes the Inflammable Liquids and Substances Act which regulates the importation, transportation, and storage of inflammable liquids and substances. The act grants the President power to make regulations defining inflammable materials and how they are classified, as well as regulations restricting and governing how these materials are imported, transported, and stored. Violations of the regulations can result in imprisonment, fines, forfeiture of materials, and cancellation of registration certificates.

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    This document outlines the Revised Laws of Mauritius regarding inflammable liquids and substances. It establishes the Inflammable Liquids and Substances Act which regulates the importation, transportation, and storage of inflammable liquids and substances. The act grants the President power to make regulations defining inflammable materials and how they are classified, as well as regulations restricting and governing how these materials are imported, transported, and stored. Violations of the regulations can result in imprisonment, fines, forfeiture of materials, and cancellation of registration certificates.

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    Inflammable Liquids and Substances Act, No 51 of 1952

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    Revised Laws of Mauritius

    INFLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND SUBSTANCES ACT


    Act 51 of 1952 – 1 March 1954

    ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION
    1. Short title
    2. Inflammable liquids and substances
    3. Regulations

    INFLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND SUBSTANCES ACT


    1. Short title
    This Act may be cited as the Inflammable Liquids and Substances Act.

    2. Inflammable liquids and substances


    No inflammable liquid or inflammable substance shall be imported,
    unloaded, loaded, trans-shipped, transported or kept except in accordance
    with regulations made under this Act.

    3. Regulations
    (1) The President may make regulations—
    (a) defining the kinds of inflammable liquids and inflammable sub-
    stances to which the regulations shall apply and dividing inflam-
    mable liquids and inflammable substances into classes or catego-
    ries and making different provisions with regard to such classes
    or categories;
    (b) restricting and regulating the importation, landing, loading, ship-
    ping, transhipment, transport and storage of inflammable liquids
    and inflammable substances;
    (c) prescribing a system of registration for the storage of inflamma-
    ble liquids and inflammable substances, the manner in which ap-
    plications for any certificate of registration under such regula-
    tions shall be made, the authorities which may grant the same,
    the fees which may be charged, the nature and situation of the
    premises in respect of which certificates of registration may be
    granted for the purposes aforesaid, the inspection of premises so
    registered or in which inflammable liquids or inflammable sub-
    stances are suspected to be kept, the taking of samples and the
    testing of inflammable liquids or inflammable substances found
    thereon, and any other matters incidental thereto;
    (d) providing for notice to be given by the owner or master of any
    ship entering a port with inflammable liquids or inflammable

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    substances, and for ascertaining the quantity and description of


    any inflammable liquids or inflammable substances on board any
    such ship;
    (e) determining the places at which, and the conditions on and sub-
    ject to which, inflammable liquids or inflammable substances
    may be imported, unloaded, landed, stored, loaded or tran-
    shipped;
    (f) providing for the delivery to such officer as may be specified of
    samples of inflammable liquids or inflammable substances landed
    or intended to be landed and for the testing of such samples;
    (g) providing, in the case of each consignment which is stated to be
    of one uniform quality, for the number of samples to be selec-
    ted, and for the averaging of the results of the testing of those
    samples;
    (h) providing, where the results of the testing of the samples raise a
    doubt as to the uniformity of the quality of the inflammable liq-
    uids or inflammable substances in any such consignment, for the
    division of the consignment into lots, and for the selection and
    testing of samples of each lot and for the treatment of the lot in
    accordance with the results of the testing of those samples;
    (i) regulating the description and construction of vehicles to be
    used in the conveyance of inflammable liquids or inflammable
    substances by road;
    (j) prescribing the conditions subject to which inflammable liquids or
    inflammable substances may be transported in any one vehicle;
    (k) prohibiting or restricting the carriage of goods and passengers in
    vehicles carrying inflammable liquids or inflammable substances;
    (l) prescribing the quantity of inflammable liquids or inflammable
    substances which may be conveyed at any one time or in any
    one vehicle;
    (m) prescribing the precautions to be observed in the conveyance of
    inflammable liquids and inflammable substances by road, the
    manner of packing and the mode and time of transit, and the
    precautions to be observed in the loading and unloading of vehi-
    cles used for such conveyance;
    (n) prescribing apparatus for testing inflammable liquids and inflam-
    mable substances, the tests to be applied and the manner in
    which tests are to be made;
    (o) fixing fees for the sampling and testing of inflammable liquids
    and inflammable substances;
    (p) appointing officers for the testing and examination of inflamma-
    ble liquids and inflammable substances; and

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    (q) generally for the proper restriction and regulation of the import,
    transport and storage of inflammable liquids and substances.
    (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may provide that any person
    who contravenes them shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be
    liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months and to a fine not
    exceeding 1,000 rupees, to the forfeiture of the inflammable liquid or in-
    flammable substance in respect of which the offence is committed as well as
    of the vessel in which such inflammable liquid or inflammable substance is
    contained and to the cancellation of the certificate of registration issued in
    respect of the premises on which the offence is committed.
    [S. 3 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]

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