Jersey Law 1/1978
EXPLOSIVES (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) LAW, 1978.
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A LAW to
amend the Explosives (Jersey) Law, 1970, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in
Council of the
9th day of FEBRUARY, 1978.
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(Registered on the 17th day of March , 1978).
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STATES OF JERSEY.
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The 21st day of
December, 1976.
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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of
Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law: -
ARTICLE 1
(1) In
the long title of the Explosives (Jersey) Law, 1970
(hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), after the word
“storage,” there shall be inserted the word “use,”.
(2) After
Article 4 of the principal Law there
shall be inserted the following Article –
“ARTICLE
4A
USE OF EXPLOSIVES
(1) No
person shall use any explosives for any purpose except in accordance with a
licence granted by the Committee.
(2) Subject
to the provisions of this Law, the Committee may refuse to grant a licence to
use explosives if it deems that it is in the best interests of the community so
to do.
(3) The
Committee may attach such conditions as it thinks fit to the grant of a licence
to use explosives.
(4) Subject
to the provisions of this Law, the Committee may, at any time, where it
considers it right and proper to do so, cancel a licence to use explosives or
vary any conditions attached to such a licence.
(5) The
Committee may, from the time notice is given in pursuance of paragraph (1) of
Article 10 of its intention to cancel a licence to use explosives or to attach
any condition to such a licence or to vary any condition attached to such a
licence, as the case may be, prohibit or restrict the use of explosives by the
holder of the licence or by any person authorised by him, and such prohibition or
restriction shall, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article
11, continue to take effect until any appeal under Article 11 against the
cancellation of the licence or the condition attaching thereto or the variation
of any condition attached thereto, as the case may be, is abandoned or
determined.
(6) The
provisions of this Article shall not apply to fireworks.
(7) Nothing
in this Article shall be taken to prohibit the use of any explosives by any
person in the employ of the Crown or any administration of the States or any
police officer, acting in the course of his duty as such.”
(3) In
paragraphs (1) and (2) of Article 12 of the principal Law –
(a) after
the words “reasonable cause to believe contain explosives” there
shall be inserted the words “or on which explosives have been used or are
being used or are about to be used”; and
(b) after
the words “or to any explosives therein” there shall be inserted
the words “or to the use of any explosives thereon”.
ARTICLE 2
For Article 6 of the principal Law there
shall be substituted the following Article –
“ARTICLE
6
CONVEYANCE OF EXPLOSIVES
(1) No
person shall convey explosives except in accordance with a licence granted by
the Committee.
(2) Subject
to the provisions of this Law, the Committee may refuse to grant a licence to
convey explosives if it deems that it is in the best interests of the community
so to do.
(3) The
Committee may attach such conditions as it thinks fit to the grant of a licence
to convey explosives.
(4) Subject
to the provisions of this Law, the Committee may, at any time, where it
considers it right and proper to do so, cancel a licence to convey explosives
or vary any conditions attached to such a licence.
(5) The
provisions of this Article shall not apply to fireworks.
(6) Nothing
in this Article shall be taken to prohibit the conveyance of any explosives by
any person in the employ of the Crown or any administration of the States or
any police officer, acting in the course of his duty as such.”
ARTICLE 3
This Law may be cited as the Explosives (Amendment) (Jersey) Law,
1978 and shall come into force on the eighth Monday next following the day on
which it is registered.
E.J.M. POTTER,
Greffier of the States.