Cap. 33 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Ordinance -

"Commissioner of Police" means the officer holding that appointment, as well as any person having an express or implied authority to act for the said Commissioner in carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance; the word "explosive" means -

gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting-powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, chlorate of potash, chlorate of barium, and every other substance whether similar to those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to producing a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps for mines, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined; "factory" means any building or premises or any part thereof wherein explosives are manufactured or wherein any process of such manufacture is carried out; the words "fine" ( or ), "detention" and ammenda multa "imprisonment" indicate the punishments referred to under those names in the Criminal Code;

the word "gunpowder", when used alone, does not include any other explosive;

"inhabited place" means any place in which there is an aggregation of houses inhabited, or capable of being inhabited, by more than one hundred persons; "sale" includes any exchange of things and any datio in solutum; "shop" means any place in which goods are sold, or in which a trade or an art is carried on;

"street" means any street, road, lane, square, or other public thoroughfare, even though it forms part of any fortification.