Leave to bring in the Gunpowder, &c. Bill to the House of Commons was granted to the home secretary, Sir George Lewis MP and the under-secretary of state for the home department, George Clive MP on 2 July 1860.

[3] The bill had its first reading in the House of Commons on 3 July 1860, presented by the home secretary, Sir George Lewis MP.

[4] The bill had its second reading in the House of Lords on 9 August 1860 and was committed to a committee of the whole house,[4] which upon the motion of the Lord President of the Council, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, was directed to meet with urgency.

[4] The amended bill was considered and agreed to by the House of Commons on 23 August 1860.

The disaster led to efforts to reform explosives law in the United Kingdom,[6] and the act was wholly repealed by section 122 of, and the fourth schedule to, the Explosives Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict.