(1) Film in excess of 150 kilograms shall only be stored or kept in rooms and positions complying with the requirements of this section.

(2) Nothing other than film and film-cement shall be kept in a film-storage room referred to in subsection (1).

(3) The walls, floors and roofs or ceiling of such rooms shall have a fire-resistance rating of not less than four hours.

(4) The cubic capacity of a room shall not exceed 21 cubic metres.

(5) The mass of film-stores in any one room shall not exceed 1 000 kilograms.

(6) An approved automatic sprinkler system shall be provided, and there shall be a sufficient number of sprinkler-heads to release 50 litres per minute per cubic metre of room-space, and the sprinkler-heads shall be arranged to give uniform distribution within the partitioned sections referred to in subsection (9).

(7) There shall be a water-supply sufficient to keep the system operating for not less than 20 minutes.

(8) Hand fire-extinguishers shall also be provided.

(9) Film-reel racks within the room shall be of non-combustible material, and shall be divided by partitions of non-combustible material equivalent to 10-millimetre asbestos-cement sheet, extending from the floor to the top of the rack.

(10) Any sections formed by the partitions referred to in subsection (9) shall be not more than 1 metre in width

(11) Doors of the rooms shall be approved self-closing, swinging fire-doors having a fire-resistance rating of not less than one hour, which open outwards into a corridor or lobby provided with similar approved self-closing, swinging fire-doors, and the doors shall open easily from the inside.

(12) The words “FILM-STORE: NO SMOKING” shall be painted in block letters of not less than 100 millimetres in height on both sides of such doors, and a warning notice shall be affixed to, or painted on, the door, indicating the weight of film which may be kept therein.

(13) The corridors referred to in subsection (11) shall have the same construction as the rooms opening into them, and no door opening into such corridor shall be opposite any other such door.

(14) The corridor shall be served by at least two exit-ways, and shall be at least 1,12 metres in width.

(15) The ventilation of film-storage rooms shall comply with the following requirements—

a) each room shall have an independent ventilation-opening to the open air, and corridors shall also be ventilated independently;

b) the ventilation-opening from every room shall have a cross-sectional area of at least 0,1 square metre per each 500 kilograms or remaining part thereof of film for which the room is intended;

c) terminal outlets to ventilation-openings shall be located above the roof of the room or shall face an open space, and be not less than 7,5 metres from any window opening or fire-escape.

(16) The electrical apparatus for a film-storage room shall comply with the following requirements—

a) no electrical apparatus, other than that essential for lighting, shall be permitted within the film-storage room in which film is kept;

b) lights shall be fixed at the ceiling with vapourproof fittings, and all wiring thereto shall be through seamless, screwed metal conduit;

c) al switches, including those controlling thermostats for air-conditioning, shall be located outside such room, together with pilot-lights showing when the lights in such room are on.

(17) No heating of such rooms shall be allowed, nor shall heating-pipe be allowed to pass through such rooms.