Police Offences Act 1935
3BMeaning of explosive substance
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3B Meaning of explosive substance
[Section 3B Inserted by No. 32 of 2025, s. 7, Applied:23 Dec 2025]
(1) In this Act, explosive substance includes the following:
(a) a substance that produces, is capable of producing or is manufactured to produce –
(i) a practical effect by explosion; or
(ii) an incendiary effect;
(b) a substance, or a class of substances, prescribed by the regulations as an explosive substance.
(2) A substance is taken to be an explosive substance under this section if the substance would be an explosive substance if it did not have something missing from it or a defect.
(3) In this Act, a reference to an explosive substance does not include a substance prescribed by the regulations to be an exempt substance.