Section 26
Regulations
The Minister may make regulations—
(a)
to regulate or prohibit, except under or in accordance with the provisions or conditions of a licence granted under this
Act, the manufacture, possession, use, sale, storage, transport, import or export of explosives or of any specified class thereof;
(b)
to prescribe the fees to be charged for any such licence and the other sums (if any) to be paid for expenses by applicants for licences;
(c)
to regulate the manner in which applications for licences shall be made and the matters to be specified in the applications;
(d)
to regulate the conditions and restrictions on and subject to which licences may be granted, the grounds upon which licences may be suspended or cancelled and the periods for which licences shall remain in force;
(e)
to exempt, either absolutely or subject to conditions, any specified explosive or class of explosives from the operation of the regulations;
(f)
to authorize any officer, either by name or by office—
(i)
to enter, inspect and examine any place, vehicle, vessel or aircraft in which any explosive is being manufactured, possessed, used, sold, stored, transported, imported or exported under a licence granted under this Act or in which he has reason to believe that any explosive has been stored, transported, imported or exported in contravention of this Act or of any regulation made thereunder;
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(ii)
to search for explosives therein;
(iii)
to take samples of any explosives found therein;
and
(iv)
to seize, detain, remove, and, if necessary, destroy any explosive found therein;
(g)
to prescribe and to regulate the tests to which various classes or any particular class of explosives may or shall be subjected before a licence is granted to manufacture, possess, use, sell, store, transport, import or export the same;
(h)
to prescribe the fees to be charged in respect of any matter for which provision is made in this Act or any regulation made thereunder and to direct by whom the same are to be paid;
(i)
to impose penalties on all persons manufacturing, possessing, using, selling, storing, transporting, importing or exporting explosives in contravention of this Act or of any regulation made thereunder, or contravening any other regulation made under this Act;
Provided that the maximum penalty which may be imposed by any such regulations shall not exceed—
(i)
in the case of a person so manufacturing, importing or exporting an explosive, imprisonment for three years, or a fine of five thousand ringgit, or both;
(ii)
in the case of a person so possessing, using, storing or transporting an explosive, imprisonment for two years, or a fine of two thousand ringgit, or both;
(iii)
in the case of a person so selling an explosive, imprisonment for one year, or a fine of one thousand ringgit, or both; and
(iv)
in any other case, a fine of five hundred ringgit;
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(j)
generally to provide for carrying out the provisions of this
Act.