Explosives Regulations, 2013

Marginal note:Notice of change of location

• 162 (1) When a magazine that is authorized by a user magazine zone licence is moved to a new site, within 24 hours after the move the holder of the licence must complete, sign and send a notice of change of location, in the form provided by the Department of Natural Resources, to the Minister of Natural Resources, to the police force in the locality of the previous site and to the police force in the locality of the new site. The notice must be dated and must include the following information:

  • (a) the name, address, telephone and cellphone number, fax number and email address of both the licence holder and a contact person;

  • (b) the holder’s licence number and its expiry date;

  • (c) the name, telephone number and cellphone number of the person who is responsible for the new site;

  • (d) the date on which the magazine was moved to the new site;

  • (e) the geographic coordinates of the previous and new sites;

  • (f) the directions by road to the new site;

  • (g) the safety and security features of the new site (for example, signs, alarm systems, barriers, fencing and berms); and

  • (h) a list of the magazines that were moved that sets out, for each magazine,

    • (i) its number, letter or distinctive name as shown on the initial magazine site plan,

    • (ii) its tag number, if any,

    • (iii) the applicable magazine type number, as set out in the Storage Standards for Industrial Explosives, May 2001, published by the Explosives Regulatory Division, Department of Natural Resources, and

    • (iv) each type of Footnote ^*explosive, and the quantity of each type, to be stored.

• Marginal note:Site plan

  (2) The notice must include a site plan that shows

  • (a) the location of each magazine and each Footnote ^*vulnerable place at the site as well as the location of each vulnerable place outside the site that is exposed to the hazards (for example, debris or blast effect) that could result from ignition of the explosives to be stored;

  • (b) the distance in metres between each magazine at the site, between each magazine and each vulnerable place at the site as well as between each magazine at the site and each vulnerable place outside the site that is exposed to the hazards (for example, debris or blast effect) that could result from ignition of the explosives to be stored at the site; and

  • (c) the minimum distance in metres to be maintained between each magazine at the site and each vulnerable place shown on the site plan, as set out in the Quantity Distance Principles — User’s Manual, 1995, published by the Explosives Regulatory Division, Department of Natural Resources.

• Return to footnote ^*Terms preceded by an asterisk are defined in section 6.