The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

3.  In regulation 5 (separation distances)—

(a) for paragraph (2), substitute—

“(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to—

(a) desensitised explosives; or

(b) explosives which are stored under a licence granted by the Secretary of State in cases where—

(i) the public hearing procedure was required pursuant to regulation 11(4); or

(ii) that procedure was not required by virtue of regulation 11(5)(d) or (e).”; and

(b) in paragraph (3)—

(i) for “sub-paragraph (b)”, substitute “sub-paragraphs (b) and (d)”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (a), insert—

“(aa) a combined total of 5 kilograms of shooters' powder and model rocket motors;”;

(iii) after sub-paragraph (d), insert—

“(e) 4 kilograms of explosive kept by a police force for operational purposes other than those referred to in sub-paragraph (d),”; and

(c) after paragraph (7), insert—

“(8) In this regulation, “model rocket motors” means explosive articles which—

(a) are allocated the U.N. nos. 0186, 0272, 0349, 0351 or 0471;

(b) are intended to be used for the propulsion of model rockets or similar articles; and

(c) in respect of each individual explosive article, contain no more than 1 kilogram of explosive.”.