Cap. 33 Art. 22Power of Minister responsible for the Police to make regulations.

(1) The Minister responsible for the Police may make, and, when made, amend, repeal or re-enact regulations for the better implementation of the provisions of this Ordinance, for the removal of difficulties in the implementation of the provisions of this Ordinance and for the control, restriction or prohibition of the importation, manufacture, preparation, storage, keeping, conveyance, handling, distribution and use of explosives, and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

(a) for the construction, lay-out, materials and internal and external fittings of gunpowder factories, fireworks factories, or other factories, magazines, store or shops, whether ashore or afloat, in which explosives are prepared, kept, or sold, as well as for any other precautions to be observed in such places;

(b) for the qualifications as to age, health, previous conduct, technical ability, and such other respects as may be prescribed in the regulations, and for the obligations of persons who own or who are employed in or have access to the said factories, magazines, stores or shops, or are the licensees thereof, or who are in any way concerned in the conveyance, manipulation, ignition or setting-off of explosives, including the requirement that any licence granted for the keeping of an explosives factory shall be subject to the taking out, at the expense of the licensee, of a policy of insurance, whether individual or collective, covering every employee and every person having access to the said factory as a voluntary worker against death or permanent disablement arising out of and in the course of his work in a sum of not less than two thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine euros and thirty-seven cents (2,329.37);

(ba) for activities taking place within an exclusive economic zone area and environment protection area as defined in the Exclusive Economic Zone Act;

(c) for any incidental and supplementary matters for which the Minister responsible for Police thinks it expedient for the purposes of the regulations to provide.

(2) Regulations made under this article may provide that, in respect of offences under any one or more regulations or under any one or more classes of regulations, the provisions of the Probation Act, or of article 21 of the Criminal Code shall not apply.