The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Dangerous Goods Act Amendment Act 1870.”

So much of the second section of the said Act as provides what the term “Petroleum” shall include is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Act and this Act the term “Petroleum” shall mean and include all such Rock oil Rangoon oil Burmah oil any product of them and any oil made from petroleum coal schist shale peat or other bituminous substance and any product of them as gives off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less than one hundred and ten degrees of Fahrenheit’s thermometer.

All the powers and duties conferred or imposed on Inspectors of Weights and Measures by the sixteenth section of the said Act may also be exercised or performed as the case may be by any Officer of Police or within any district mentioned in the seventh section of the said Act by any person authorized to exercise and perform such powers and duties by the local authority thereof to which the power of granting licenses is given by the said section and the said sixteenth section shall be construed as if after the words “any Inspector of Weights and Measures” there were inserted the following words “or any Police Constable or any person authorized by the local authority.”