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The Control of Explosives Regulations 1991

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Explosives certificate

(8)—(a) This paragraph applies with respect to an explosives certificate which would, if granted, certify only that the holder is a fit person to acquire explosives and where the person who would be the holder is not resident in Great Britain or, in the case of a body corporate, does not have a registered office or any other office in Great Britain.

(b)Where this paragraph applies, the application for an explosives certificate may be made by a person resident in Great Britain who has knowledge of and control over any occasion when the person to whom the certificate would relate would acquire or use explosives.

(c)An application under this paragraph shall be made to the chief officer of police for the police area in which the person who makes the application resides or, in the case of a body corporate, has its registered office or, if it has no registered office, its principal office.

(9) The holder of an explosives certificate shall inform the chief officer of police who issued it of any change in the holder’s address or, where the holder is a body corporate or partnership, of its proper address for the purposes of section 46(4) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, either before or forthwith after any such change occurs.

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