Explosives Regulations (C.R.C., c. 599)
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Regulations are current to 2012-05-14 and last amended on 2009-06-01. Previous Versions
Class 2 — Nitrate Mixture Class
9. The nitrate mixture class includes any blasting agent formed by the mechanical mixture of oxidizers with any form of carbon or carbonaceous substance, sulphur, metallic material or any fuel that, when tested in a manner satisfactory to the Chief Inspector, as packaged for shipment, is found to be insensitive to ignition or initiation.
Class 3 — Nitro-Compound Class
10. (1) “Nitro-compound” means any chemical compound that has explosive properties, or is capable of combining with metals to form an explosive compound, and is produced by the chemical action of nitric acid (whether mixed or not with sulphuric acid) or of a nitrate mixed with sulphuric acid upon any carbonaceous substance, whether such compound is mechanically mixed with other substances or not.
(2) The nitro-compound class has two divisions, namely, Division 1 and Division 2.
(3) Division 1 comprises such explosives as dynamite, blasting gelatine, cordite, forcite, gelatine dynamite, monobel, C-X-L-ite, blastol, and any chemical compound or mechanically mixed preparation that consists either wholly or partly of nitroglycerine, or of some other liquid nitro-compound.
(4) Division 2 comprises such explosives as gun-cotton, nitro-cotton, picric acid, trinitrotoluene (T.N.T.), nitroguanidine, pentaerythritol tetranitrate (P.E.T.N.), and any nitro-compound that is not comprised in Division 1.
Class 4 — Chlorate Mixture Class
11. (1) “Chlorate-mixture” means any explosive containing a chlorate.
(2) The chlorate-mixture class has two divisions, namely, Division 1 and Division 2.
(3) Division 1 comprises any chlorate preparation that consists partly of nitroglycerine or of some other liquid nitro-compound.
(4) Division 2 comprises any chlorate mixture that is not included in Division 1.
Class 5 — Fulminate Class
12. (1) “Fulminate” means any chemical compound or mechanical mixture, whether included in the foregoing classes or not, that by reason of its great susceptibility to detonation is suitable for employment in percussion caps or any other appliances for developing detonation, or that by reason of its extreme sensibility to explosion and its great instability (that is to say readiness to undergo decomposition from very slight exciting causes) is especially dangerous.
(2) The fulminate class consists of two divisions, namely, Division 1 and Division 2.
(3) Division 1 comprises such compounds as the fulminates of silver and of mercury, and preparations of these substances, any preparation consisting of a chlorate mixed with phosphorus or certain descriptions of phosphorus compounds, with or without the addition of carbonaceous matter; and any preparation consisting of a chlorate mixed with sulphur or with sulphide, with or without carbonaceous matter.
(4) Division 2 comprises such substances as the chloride and the iodide of nitrogen, fulminating gold and silver, lead azide and lead styphnate.
Class 6 — Ammunition Class
13. (1) “Ammunition” means an explosive of any class when enclosed in a case or contrivance or otherwise adapted or prepared so as to form a cartridge or charge for small arms, cannon, any other weapon, or for blasting, or so as to form any safety or other fuse for blasting or shells, or so as to form any tube for firing explosives, or so as to form a percussion cap, detonator, shell, torpedo, war rocket or other contrivance other than a firework.
(2) “Percussion cap” does not include a detonator.
(3) “Detonator” means a capsule or case that is of such strength and construction, and contains an explosive of the fulminate class in such quantity that the explosion of one capsule or case will communicate the explosion to other like capsules or cases.
(4) “Safety fuse” means a fuse for blasting that burns and does not explode, does not contain its own means of ignition, and is of such strength and construction and contains an explosive in such quantity that the burning of such fuse will not communicate laterally with other like fuses.
(5) The ammunition class has three divisions, namely, Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3.
(6) Division 1 comprises the following:
(a) safety cartridges;
(b) safety fuses; and
(c) percussion caps if the cap
(i) is a metal case or capsule,
(ii) has its composition protected by tin-foil or other suitable substance,
(iii) contains less than 40 milligrams of a composition of Division 1 of Class 5 (fulminate), of which not more than 25 per cent consists of fulminate of mercury or less than 35 milligrams of any other explosive of Division 1 of Class 5 (fulminate), and
(iv) is of such strength and construction that the ignition of one such cap will not ignite other like caps.
(7) Division 2 comprises any ammunition that does not contain its own means of ignition, and is not included in Division 1, such as cartridges and charges for cannon, shell, mines or other like purpose, electric fuses, electric primers, mining squibs, instantaneous fuse and shaped charges, but does not include detonators and electric detonators.
(8) Division 3 comprises any ammunition that contains its own means of ignition, and is not included in Division 1, such as detonators, percussion caps not included in Division 1, friction tubes, percussion primers, fuses for shell (such as time and percussion fuses) if such fuses do contain their own means of ignition.
(9) “Ammunition containing its own means of ignition” means ammunition that has an arrangement, whether attached to it or forming part of it, that is adapted to explode or fire the same by friction or percussion.