Fireworks regulations
7Licensing of suppliers
1
Fireworks regulations may include provision prohibiting persons, or persons of a description specified in the regulations, from supplying, exposing for supply or possessing for supply fireworks, or fireworks of a description so specified, unless—
a
they are licensed in accordance with the regulations, and
b
the fireworks are supplied, exposed for supply or kept at premises which are so licensed.
2
If fireworks regulations impose any prohibition by virtue of subsection (1), they may contain provision—
a
specifying the local or other authority by which a licence relating to any person or premises may be granted, varied and revoked,
b
relating to the grant, variation and revocation of licences,
c
about conditions which may be attached to licences (including, in particular, conditions as to the time of year for which persons or premises are licensed),
d
for the charging of fees for the grant or variation of licences, and
e
about appeals against refusals to grant or vary, or variations of, licences.
3
The provision that may be contained in fireworks regulations by virtue of subsection (1) includes, in particular, provision that a person may not be licensed unless any conditions which are specified in the regulations are satisfied by the person or his employees (or both).
4
Those conditions may include conditions relating to the satisfactory completion of a course, or courses, of training about fireworks and the means of proving the satisfactory completion of such course or courses.
5
If fireworks regulations impose any prohibition by virtue of this section, they may contain—
a
exceptions from the prohibition, or
b
provision for the granting of dispensations from the prohibition.