These shall include any building or part thereof which is used for the storage, handling, manufacture or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and/or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosions for storage, handling, manufacturing or processing which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing flame, fumes and explosive, poisonous, irritant or corrosive gases; and for the storage, handling or processing of any material producing explosive mixtures of dust which result in the division of matter into fine particles subject to spontaneous ignition. Examples of buildings in this class are those buildings which are used for,
a) storage, under pressure of more than and in quantities exceeding
of acetylene, hydrogen, illuminating and natural gases, ammonia, chlorine, phosgene, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, methyloxide and all gases subject to explosion, fume or toxic hazard, cryogenic gases, etc;
b) storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable liquids, liquefiable gases like LPG, rocket propellants, etc;
c) storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable or explosive materials (other than liquids); and
d) manufacture of artificial flowers, synthetic leather, ammunition, explosives and fireworks.
NOTE — A list of hazardous substances giving quantities, for which or exceeding which owners handling such substances are required to be covered under The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991, has been notified under the ‘Rules on Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Response for Chemical Accidents’ by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests Notification No. G.S.R. 347(E) dated 01 August 1996.