{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-108",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-108.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/17",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875",
  "path": "section/108",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "108",
  "heading": "General definitions.",
  "text": "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\nThe expression “this Act” includes any license, ... and order granted or made in pursuance of this Act:\n...\nThe expression “person” includes a body corporate:\nThe expression “occupier” includes any number of persons and a body corporate; and in the case of any manufacture or trade, includes any person carrying on such manufacture or trade:\nThe expression “master” includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of a ship, and in reference to any boat belonging to a ship, means the master of the ship; and when used in reference to any other boat, includes every person having command or charge of such boat:\nThe expression “magazine” includes any ship or other vessel used for the purpose of keeping any explosive:\n...\nThe expression “store” means ...a place for keeping an explosive ...:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nThe expression “warehouseman” includes all persons owning or managing any warehouse, store, wharf, or other premises in which goods are deposited:\nThe expression “carrier” includes all persons carrying goods or passengers for hire by land or water:\n...\n...\nThe expression “tidal water” means any part of the sea or of a river within the ebb and flow of the tides at ordinary spring tides:\nThe expression “inland water” means any canal, river, navigation, lake, or water which is not tidal water:\n...\nThe expression “wharf” includes any quay, landing–place, siding, or other place at which goods are landed, loaded, or unloaded:\nThe expression “carriage” includes any carriage, waggon, cart, truck, vehicle, or other means of conveying goods or passengers by land, in whatever manner the same may be propelled:\nThe expression “ship” includes every description of vessel used in sea navigation, whether propelled by oars or otherwise:\nThe expression “boat” means every vessel not a ship as above defined which is used in navigation in any inland water or any harbour, whether propelled by oars or otherwise:\nThe expression “prescribed” means prescribed by Order in Council:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n...\n...\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nThe expression “road”has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 108 repealed (E.W.S.) (26.4.2005 with application outside E.W.S. as mentioned in reg. 3 of the repealing S.I.) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1082), Sch. 5 para. 1(15)(a), Sch. 6 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 108 omitted (N.I.) (1.12.2006) by virtue of The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/425), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 1(13)(a), Sch. 7 Pt. 1 (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 108 repealed (E.W.S.) (26.4.2005 with application outside E.W.S. as mentioned in reg. 3 of the repealing S.I.) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1082), Sch. 5 para. 1(15)(c), Sch. 6 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 108 omitted (N.I.) (1.12.2006) by virtue of The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/425), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 1(13)(c), Sch. 7 Pt. 1 (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 108 repealed (E.W.S.) (26.4.2005 with application outside E.W.S. as mentioned in reg. 3 of the repealing S.I.) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1082), Sch. 5 para. 1(15)(b), Sch. 6 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 108 omitted (N.I.) (1.12.2006) by virtue of The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/425), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 1(13)(b), Sch. 7 Pt. 1 (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30Words from \"the expression\"county\" to \"such district\" repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.VII."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words added (S) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 7(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to urban sanitary district and urban sanitary authority to be construed as reference to district and district council: Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Definition of “magazine” extended by Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59), Sch. para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/17/section/108",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:48.433027+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}