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Explosives (Skyrockets Restriction) Amendment Act 1994

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 15 December 1994 (as enacted) | 1994 No 144

Explosives (Skyrockets Restriction) Amendment Act 1994

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Explosives (Skyrockets Restriction) Amendment Act 1994

Public Act
  
1994 No 144
Date of assent
  
15 December 1994
 

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An Act to restrict the sale of skyrockets to certain persons, and to amend the Explosives Act 1957

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Explosives (Skyrockets Restriction) Amendment Act 1994, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Explosives Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1995.

2 Skyrockets, etc., removed from unrestricted sale

The Schedule to the principal Act (as amended by section 3 of the Explosives Amendment Act 1975 and clause 2 of the Explosives (Fireworks) Order 1990) is hereby amended by omitting the descriptions of divisions 2 and 3 of the seventh (firework) class, and substituting the following descriptions:

“Division 2: Manufactured fireworks not falling within division 3 of this class.

“Division 3: Manufactured fireworks each of which—

“(a)

Is not a banger, hunger, cannon, or other firework whose sole or principal effect is percussive; and

“(b)

Is not a rocket, tourbillion, or other firework whose sole or principal effect is vertical or horizontal flight; and

“(c)

Contains not more than 40 grams of explosives enclosed in a case of paper or other suitable material of a strength, construction, and character such that the ignition or explosions of one such firework will not cause the explosion en masse of similar fireworks kept or carried with it; and

“(d)

Is of a kind or description approved by the Chief Inspector (in accordance with regulations made under this Act) as being suitable for unrestricted sale.

3 Repeal

The Schedule to the Explosives Amendment Act 1975 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing so much as relates to the description in the Schedule to the principal Act of the seventh (firework) class.

4 Revocation

The Explosives (Fireworks) Order 1990 (S.R. 1990/34) is hereby consequentially revoked.

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 15 December 1994 (as enacted)

Explosives (Skyrockets Restriction) Amendment Act 1994

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