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THE
EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES ACT
[INDIA ACT VI, 1908] (8th June, 1908)
11. This Act extends to the whole of the Union
of Burma and applies also to all citizens of the Union and all
servants of the Government wherever they may be.
2. In this Act, the expression “explosive substance”
shall be deemed to include any materials for making any
explosive substance; also any apparatus, machine, implement or
material used, on intended to be used, or adapted for causing,
or aiding in causing, any explosion in or with any explosive
substance; also any part of any such apparatus, machine or
implement.
3. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously causes by
any explosive substance an explosion of a nature likely to
endanger life or to cause serious injury to property shall,
whether any injury to person or property has been actually
caused or not, be punished with transportation for life or any
shorter term, to which fine may be added, or with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to ten years, to which fine may be
added.
4. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously —
(a) does any act with intent to cause by an explosive
substance, or conspires to cause by an explosive substance, an
explosion in the Union of Burma of a nature likely to endanger
life or to cause serious injury to property ; or
(b) makes on has in his possession or under his control
any explosive substance with
Foot Note: 1. Substituted by the Union of Burma
(Adaptation of Laws) Order, 1948.
intent by means thereof to endanger life, or cause serious
injury to property in the Union of Burma, or to enable any other
person by means thereof to endanger life or cause serious injury
to property in the Union of Burma;
shall, whether any explosion does or does not take p1ace and
whether any injury to or property has been actually caused or
not, be punished with transportation for a term which may extend
to twenty years, to which fine may be added, or with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, to
which fine may be added.
5. Any person who makes or knowingly has in his
possession on under his control any explosive substance, under
such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion
that he is not making it or does not have it in his possession
or under his control for a lawful object, shall, unless he can
show that he made it or had it in his possession or under his
control for a lawful object, be punishable with transportation
for a term which may extend to fourteen years, to which fine may
be added, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
five years, to which fine may be added.
6. Any person who by the supply of on solicitation for
money, the providing of premises, the supply of materials, or in
any manner whatsoever, procures, counsels, aids, abets, or is
accessory to, the commission of any offence under this Act shall
be punished with the punishment provided for the offence.
7. No Court shall precede to the trial of any person for
an offence against this Act except with the consent of the
President of the Union.
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