Act Number: 4

Act Name: The Explosives Act, 1884

Year: 1884

Enactment Date: 1884-02-26

Long Title: An Act to regulate the manufacture, possession, use, sale,transport, import and export of explosives.

Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department: Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

Section 17: Extension of definition of “explosive” to other explosive substances.
    The Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any substance which appears to the Central Government to be specially dangerous to life or property, by reason either of its explosive properties or of any process in the manufacture thereof being liable to explosion, shall be deemed to be an explosive within the meaning of this Act; and the provisions of this Act (subject to such exceptions, limitations and restrictions as may be specified in the notification) shall accordingly extend to that substance in like manner as if it were included in the definition of the term "explosive" in this Act.
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