New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

EXPLOSIVES REGULATION 2005 - REG 81

81 Storage and setting of explosives

(1) A licensee must ensure that any explosive that cannot be used, or loaded into blast holes, on the day it is prepared for use is:

(a) kept in closed, clean, secure containers, packagings or augers, conspicuously labelled “EXPLOSIVES”, and

(b) kept in a safe and secure storage facility until the explosive can be used, and

(c) used as soon as is practicable.

(2) A person who has set, or caused to be set, an explosive to explode must not leave the explosive unsupervised until it has exploded or been destroyed or rendered harmless.

(3) An inspector may direct a person who has set, or caused to be set, an explosive to explode to:

(a) explode it, or

(b) render it harmless, destroy it or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with this Regulation,

and the person so directed must not, without reasonable cause, fail to comply with the direction.

(4) Subclauses (2) and (3) extend to apply in respect of an explosive that has failed to fire or has misfired.

(5) Subclause (2) does not apply to or in respect of an explosive that is set to explode at a place in connection with any work to which the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002 , or the Mines Inspection Act 1901 or the Mine Health and Safety Act 2004 (whichever is in force), while the explosive remains at that place.

Maximum penalty: 250 penalty units.