Explosives Act

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has been released notification on draft Explosives Rules. Explosives rule is basically a power for Central Government to prohibit the manufacture, possession or importation of specially dangerous explosives. Explosives are any substance or device that can be made to produce a volume of rapidly expanding gas in an extremely brief…

Ministry of Commerce and Industry has released the Ammonium Nitrate (Amendment) Rules under the Explosives Act 1884. As per amendments, the legal provisions are: Exclusion from regulation for stevedores (agency handling loading / unloading of on ship). Ammonium nitrate received at ports to be transferred to storage houses 500 metres beyond the port area. The…