1. These Regulations may be cited as the Explosives Regulations.

2. In these Regulations,

“Act”

“Act” means the Explosives Act; (Loi)

“authorized explosive”

“authorized explosive” means any explosive that is declared by the Chief Inspector to be an authorized explosive pursuant to section 22; (explosif autorisé)

“automotive explosive”

“automotive explosive” means an automotive safety device that the competent authority of the country of origin has classified as a Class 9 explosive under the UN Model Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, 2005, published by the United Nations, as amended from time to time; (explosif pour automobile)

“Chief Inspector”

“Chief Inspector” means a person appointed as Chief Inspector of Explosives in the manner authorized by law or a person authorized by the Minister to carry on the duties of the Chief Inspector of Explosives in his absence; (inspecteur en chef)

“Department”

“Department” means the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources; (ministère)

“detonator magazine”

“detonator magazine” means a magazine for storing initiation systems; (poudrière de détonateurs)

“explosive”

“explosive”[Repealed, SOR/2009-125, s. 1]

“explosive article”

“explosive article” means an article that contains one or more explosive substances; (objet explosif)

“explosive substance”

“explosive substance” means a solid or liquid substance — or a mixture of solid and liquid substances — that is capable by chemical reaction of producing a gas at a temperature, pressure and speed that could cause damage to the surrounding structures and infrastructure and includes a pyrotechnic substance even if the pyrotechnic substance does not produce a gas; (matière explosive)

“factory”

“factory” means any building, structure, premises or land in or upon which the manufacture or any part of the process of manufacture of an explosive is carried on, the site on which such building, structure or premises are situated, and all other buildings, structures or premises within such site; (fabrique)

“fireworks”

“fireworks” includes fireworks composition and manufactured fireworks; (pièces pyrotechniques)

“fireworks composition”

“fireworks composition” means any chemical compound or mechanically mixed preparation of an explosive or inflammable nature that is used for the purpose of making any manufactured fireworks and is not included in any other class of explosives, and includes any star or coloured fire composition that is not manufactured fireworks; (composition pyrotechnique)

“inspector”

“inspector” means the Chief Inspector, an inspector of explosives, a deputy inspector of explosives and any other person who is directed by the Minister to inspect an explosive, a vehicle, factory or magazine or to hold an inquiry in connection with any accident caused by an explosive; (inspecteur)

“licensed factory”

“licensed factory” means a factory in respect of which a licence issued under section 6 of the Act is in force; (fabrique munie d’une licence)

“licensed magazine”

“licensed magazine” means a magazine in respect of which a licence issued under section 6 of the Act is in force; (poudrière autorisée)

“magazine”

“magazine” means any building, storehouse, structure or place in which any explosive is kept or stored, but does not include

• (a) a place where an explosive is kept or stored exclusively for use at or in a mine or quarry in a province in which provision is made by the law of that province for efficient inspection and control of explosives stored and used at or in mines and quarries,

• (b) a vehicle in which an authorized explosive is being transported in accordance with the provisions of the Act,

• (c) the structure or place in which is kept for private use, and not for sale, an authorized explosive to an amount not exceeding that authorized by these Regulations,

• (d) any store or warehouse in which are stored for sale authorized explosives to an amount not exceeding that authorized by these Regulations, or

• (e) any place at which the blending or assembling of the inexplosive component parts of an authorized explosive is allowed under section 8 of the Act; (poudrière ou dépôt)

“manufactured fireworks”

“manufactured fireworks” means explosives of any class and any fireworks composition that is enclosed in any case or contrivance, or is otherwise manufactured or adapted for the production of pyrotechnic effects, pyrotechnic signals or sound signals; (pièces pyrotechniques fabriquées)

“Minister”

“Minister” means the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources or such other Minister as the Governor in Council may from time to time designate; (ministre)

“mobile process unit”

“mobile process unit” means a process vehicle or a portable unit in which explosives are manufactured; (unité de fabrication mobile)

“NEQ”

“NEQ” means net explosives quantity; (QNE)

“operator”

“operator” includes the owner, manager or person in charge; (exploitant)

“process unit”

“process unit” means any building, structure, room or place where explosives are manufactured at a factory site. (unité de fabrication)

“process vehicle”

“process vehicle”[Repealed, SOR/2009-125, s. 1]

“safety cartridge”

“safety cartridge” means a cartridge for any shotgun, gun, rifle, pistol, revolver and industrial gun the case of which can be extracted after firing and that is so closed as to prevent any explosion in one cartridge being communicated to another cartridge but does not include tracer, incendiary, high explosive or other similar military type cartridges; (cartouche de sûreté);

“satellite site”

“satellite site” means a site, away from a factory, where bulk explosives are stored and distributed and includes any storage facilities for raw material and parking facilities for mobile process units; (site satellite)

“user magazine zone licence”

“user magazine zone licence” means a user magazine licence that authorizes the holder to move any licensed magazine to which it relates to another site; (licence de poudrière (utilisateur - zone))

“vehicle”

“vehicle” means any truck, automobile or other conveyance for use on land but does not include any vehicle running only upon rails to which the Railway Act applies. (véhicule)

“vulnerable place”

“vulnerable place” means

• (a) any building in which people live, work or are likely to assemble,

• (b) any public road and any railway or other means of transportation,

• (c) pipelines and energy transmission lines, and

• (d) any place where a substance that creates a risk of fire or explosion may be stored. (lieu vulnérable)