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Police Offences Act 1935
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### 3B Meaning of explosive substance
> [*\[Section 3B Inserted by No. 32 of 2025, s. 7, Applied:23 Dec 2025\]*](/view/html/inforce/2025-12-23/act-2025-032#GS7@EN)
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> > (1) In this Act, ***explosive substance*** includes the following:
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> > > > (a) a substance that produces, is capable of producing or is manufactured to produce –
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> > > > > > (i) a practical effect by explosion; or
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> > > > > > (ii) an incendiary effect;
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> > > > (b) a substance, or a class of substances, prescribed by the regulations as an explosive substance.
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> > (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.
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> > (3) In this Act, a reference to an explosive substance does not include a substance prescribed by the regulations to be an exempt substance.