Explosives Amendment Act 1975

Public Act		1975 No 75
Date of assent		9 October 1975

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Delegation by Chief Inspector
3	Metric amendments
	Schedule Metrication of Provisions of Explosives Act 1957
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Explosives Act 1957

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Explosives Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Explosives Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Delegation by Chief Inspector

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 8, the following section:

“8a

“(1)

The Chief Inspector may from time to time in writing under his own hand, either generally or particularly, delegate to any Inspector, or other person appointed under the State Services Act 1962 and employed by the Department of Internal Affairs, any of his functions or powers under this Act (including this power of delegation).

“(2)

Subject to any general or special directions given, or conditions attached, by the person making the delegation, any person to whom any functions or powers are delegated under this section may exercise those functions or powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on him directly by this section and not by delegation.

“(3)

Every person purporting to act pursuant to any delegation under this section shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation.

“(4)

Every delegation under this section shall be revocable in writing at will, and no delegation shall prevent the exercise of any function or power by the person making the delegation.

“(5)

Any such delegation shall, until revoked, continue in force according to its tenor, notwithstanding any change of holder of the office of Chief Inspector.”

3 Metric amendments

The principal Act is hereby further amended in the manner indicated in the Schedule to this Act.

Schedule Metrication of Provisions of Explosives Act 1957

Section 3

Provision Amended	Amendment
Section 26(1)(a)	By omitting the words “thirty pounds”, and substituting the words “15 kilograms”.
Section 26(1)(b)(i)	By omitting the words “ten pounds”, and substituting the words “5 kilograms”.
Section 26(1)(b)(ii)	By omitting the words “five pounds”, and substituting the words “2.5 kilograms”.
Section 26(1)(b)(iii)	By omitting the words “five pounds”, “two pounds”, and “one pound”, and substituting respectively the words “2.5 kilograms”, “2 kilograms”, and “1 kilogram”.
Section 40(1)	By omitting from paragraph (a) of the proviso the words “one hundred pounds”, and substituting the words “50 kilograms”.
Section 41(2)	By omitting the words “five pounds”, and substituting the words “2.5 kilograms”.
Section 47(4)(a)	By omitting the words “fifty-five pounds”, and substituting the words “27 kilograms”.
Schedule: Class 6	By omitting the words “0.5 grain” and “0.6 grain”, and substituting respectively the words “33 milligrams” and “39 milligrams”.
Class 7	By omitting the words “600 grains” from both places where they appear, and substituting in each case the words “40 grams”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

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