Section 9. (1) The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may make ru

9. (1) The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may make rules to regulate the importation of petroleum and the granting of licenses to possess or to transport petroleum within the Province in cases in which such licenses are by law required. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may— (a) determine the ports at which alone petroleum may be imported; (b) provide for ascertaining the quantity and description of any petroleum on board any ship; (c) determine the places at which, and the conditions on and subject to which, petroleum may be discharged into boats, landed, transhipped or stored; (d) provide 1899.] Petroleum. 101 (Petroleum generally.—Section 9.) (d) provide for the selection by an officer appointed by the Local Government in this behalf, and for the delivery to him, either after or before petroleum has been landed, of samples of all petroleum landed or intended to be landed; (e) provide, in the case of each consignment which is stated to be of one uniform quality, for the number of samples to be selected, and for the averaging of the results of the testing of those samples; (f) provide, where the results of the testing of the samples raise a doubt as to the uniformity of the quality of the petroleum in any such consignment, for the division of the consignment into lots, and for the selection and testing of samples of each lot, and for the treatment of the lot in accordance with the results of the testing of those samples; (g) fix fees for the sampling and testing of petroleum; (h) fix fees for the storage of petroleum unless any local authority is empowered in that behalf; (i) define, with respect to any petroleum produced within the Province, the limits of the places in which such petroleum is to be refined; (j) provide for the testing at or near those places of petroleum so produced; (k) prevent the removal from those limits, otherwise than under the provisions of this Act applicable to dangerous petroleum, of petroleum so produced which has not satisfied the prescribed tests; (l) prescribe the authority by which licenses to possess or to transport petroleum may be granted; (m) fix 102 Petroleum. [ACT VIII (Petroleum generally.—Section 10.) (m) fix the fee to be charged for any such license; (n) limit the quantity of petroleum to be covered by any such license; (o) prescribe the conditions which may be inserted in any such license; (p) limit the time during which any such license is to continue in force; (q) provide for the renewal of any such license; (r) provide for the nature and situation of the premises in respect of which licenses to possess petroleum may be granted, the inspection of premises so licensed and the testing of petroleum found thereon; and (s) prescribe the manner in which the petroleum covered by a license to transport is to be packed, the mode and time of its transit, the route by which it is to be taken, and its stoppage and inspection during transit. Procedure after petroleum has been discharged or landed.