White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1908

Short title, commencement, and construction.

5.(1) This Act may be cited as the White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1908, and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and ten.

(2) For the purposes of this Act the expression “white phosphorus” means the substance usually known as white or yellow phosphorus.