Section 14.]]

(1)

Nothing in this Act, except sections 8, 9 and 9-A shall apply to the manufacture, possession, use, transport or importation of any explosive

(a) by any of the [Armed Forces of the Union, and Ordnance Factories or

(b) by any person employed under [the Central Government or under a State

(2)

The Central Government may by notification in the Official Gazette exempt, absolutely or subject to any such conditions as it may think fit to impose, [any explosive and any person or class of

persons from all or any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made

thereunder] [[Substituted by Act 32 of 1978, Section 16, for

certain words (w.e.f. 2.3.1983).]].]