The White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act 1909

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THE WHITE PHOSPHORUS MATCHES

PROHIBITION ACT 1909

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THE WHITE PHOSPHORUS MATCHES PROHIBITION

ACT 1909

Index Section Page

1 Short title and commencement ..................................................................................... 5
2 Definitions........................................................................................................................ 5
3 Prohibition of use of white phosphorus in manufacture of matches ...................... 5
4 Prohibition of sale ........................................................................................................... 6
5 to 7 [Repealed] ................................................................................................................. 6
ENDNOTES 7

TABLE OF LEGISLATION HISTORY 7
TABLE OF RENUMBERED PROVISIONS 7
TABLE OF ENDNOTE REFERENCES 7

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THE WHITE PHOSPHORUS MATCHES PROHIBITION

ACT 1909

Received Royal Assent: 3 July 1909
Promulgated: 5 July 1909
Commenced: 1 January 1910
AN ACT
intituled ‘An Act to prohibit the Manufacture and Sale of Matches
made with White Phosphorus, and for other purposes in connection therewith’
1 Short title and commencement

This Act may be cited as ‘The White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1909’,
and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, come into operation on the
first day of January nineteen hundred and ten.
2 Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions
have the meanings hereby assigned to them: —
“White phosphorus
” means the substance usually known as white or yellow
phosphorus.
“Court of summary jurisdiction
” means a high-bailiff or two justices of the
peace.
3 Prohibition of use of white phosphorus in manufacture of matches

(1) Any person who shall use white phosphorus in the manufacture of
matches, and the occupier of any factory within the meaning of the
Factories and Workshops Act, 1908 (an Act of the Legislature which has
received the Royal assent but has not yet been promulgated), in which
white phosphorus is so used, shall be guilty of an offence.1

(2) [Repealed]2

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4 Prohibition of sale

It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or to offer, or expose for sale, or to
have in his possession for the purposes of sale, any matches made with white
phosphorus, and, if any person contravenes the provisions of this section, he
may, on complaint to a court of summary jurisdiction, be ordered to forfeit any
such matches in his possession, and any matches so forfeited shall be destroyed
or otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit, but this provision shall not
come into operation as respects any retail dealer until the first day of January
nineteen hundred and eleven.
5 to 7 [Repealed]
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The White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act 1909 Endnotes


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ENDNOTES

Table of Legislation History

Legislation Year and No Commencement






Table of Renumbered Provisions

Original Current






Table of Endnote References

1
Subs (1) amended by Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (of Parliament) Sch 9
(applied GC 58/80). 2
Subs (2) repealed by Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (of Parliament) Sch 10
(applied GC 58/80). 3
Ss 5 to 7 repealed by Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (of Parliament) Sch 10
(applied GC58/80).