This Act amends the Law with respect to manufacturing, keeping, selling, carrying, and importing Gunpowder, Nitro–glycerine, and other Explosive Substances. Amongst other things, the Act ensures that any person who enters an explosives area without permission, or any person within an explosive area committing an act liable to cause an explosion without proper authority is subject to instant arrest. The Act applies to gunpowder and other explosives such as nitro–glycerine, dynamite, gun–cotton, blasting powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above–mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect as well as other substances and objects such as fog–signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.
