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Explosives, as to injuries by, see the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 9, 10; the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, ss. 28-30, 64, 65; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.'

The (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (38 Vict. c. 17), as amended and extended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 17), regulates the manufacture, keeping, sale, and conveyance of gunpowder and other explosives, and the licensing and management of stores, defining 'explosive' in that Act as meaning:

gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powders, fulminate mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;

And as including:

For signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.

The Explosive Substances Act, 1883 (46 Vict. c. 3), greatly increases the punishment for causing or attempting to cause dangerous explosions, and allows an inquiry to be instituted before a justice of the peace by order of the Attorney-General if he has ground for believing an offence against the Act to have been committed, although no particular person may be charged with such offence. as to sending explosives through the post, see Post Office Protection Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 76). Coal Mines Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 61, regulates the use of explosive in coal mines, see also the Explosives in Coal Mines (Horse Killers) Order, 1931 (S. R. & O. 1931, No. 521); Explosives in Coal Mines Order, 1934 (S.R. & O. 1934, No. 6); Explosives in Coal Mines (Condor) Order, 1934 (S. R.& O. 1934, No. 152). See Chit. Stat., tit. 'Explosives.'