This Act may be cited as the Phosphorus Matches Act, 1910; and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve.

For the purposes of this Act—

It shall not be lawful to import into New Zealand matches made with white phosphorus; and matches so made shall be included among the goods enumerated and described in the Third Schedule to the Customs Law Act, 1908.

Every occupier of a factory is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred pounds who uses or permits the use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches in that factory.

The occupier of any factory in which the manufacture of matches is carried on shall allow an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908, at any time to take for analysis sufficient samples of any material in use or mixed for use, and if he refuses to do so shall be guilty of obstructing the Inspector in the execution of his duties under that Act.

It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, or to offer or expose for sale, or to have in his possession for the purposes of sale, any matches made with white phosphorus; and if any person contravenes the provisions of this section he may, on complaint to a Magistrate, be ordered to forfeit any such matches in his possession, and any matches so forfeited shall be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as the Magistrate thinks fit: but this provision shall not come into operation until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirteen.