4.—(1) The Executive shall be the enforcing authority for—
(a)the enforcement of any of the relevant statutory provisions against a body specified in paragraph (3) or the officers or servants of such a body;
(b)any part of premises occupied by such a body.
(2) Where premises are mainly occupied by a body specified in paragraph (3) and are partly occupied by another person for the purpose of providing services at the premises for that body, the Executive shall be the enforcing authority for the part of the premises occupied by that other person.
(3) The bodies referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are—
(a)a county council;
(b)any other local authority as defined in regulation 2;
(c)a parish council in England or a community council in Wales or Scotland;
(d)a police authority or the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;
(e)a [F1relevant authority (as defined in section 6 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5))] [F2or, in England or Wales, a fire and rescue authority under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004];
(f)a headquarters or an organisation designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisation Act 1964(1); or a service authority of a visiting force within the meaning of section 12 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952(2);
(g)the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority;
(h)the Crown, but regulation 3 shall apply to any part of premises occupied by the Executive and to any activity carried on there.
(4) The Executive shall be the enforcing authority for—
(a)section 6 of the 1974 Act;
(b)the other relevant statutory provisions in respect of any activity specified in Schedule 2 (whether or not it is the main activity carried on in premises).
(5) Regulation 3 and the preceding provisions of this regulation shall have effect subject to any provisions made for enforcement responsibility by other regulations made under the 1974 Act or by any of the existing statutory provisions.
(6) The preceding provisions of this regulation shall have effect subject to regulations 5 and 6.
[F3(7) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this regulation and subject to paragraphs (8) to (10), a licensing authority shall be the enforcing authority for the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”) and section 23 of the Explosives Act 1875 —
(a)for a site in relation to which it has granted a person a licence for the manufacture or storage of explosives at that site under regulation 13 of the 2005 Regulations or registered a person in respect of such storage at that site under regulation 11 of those Regulations;
(b)where, in relation to a deemed licence or deemed registration, it would have been the licensing authority by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2005 Regulations if an application for a licence or registration had been made under those Regulations; and
(c)where, in any other case than those referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b)—
(i)it would be the licensing authority by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to those Regulations if an application for a licence or registration is, or should have been, made under those Regulations, or
(ii)it would have been the licensing authority had not the requirements of regulation 9(1) or, as the case may be, 10(1) been disapplied by virtue of any of the provisions of, respectively, regulation 9(2) or 10(2) applying in the case concerned.
(8) The Executive shall be the enforcing authority for the 2005 Regulations in respect of the manufacture of ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate.
(9) A licensing authority which is a local authority shall be the enforcing authority for regulation 25 of the 2005 Regulations in the area of that local authority.
(10) The enforcing authority for regulation 6 of the 2005 Regulations where a person disposes of explosives or decontaminates explosive-contaminated items at a place other than at a site in relation to which a person has a licence to manufacture or store explosives under regulation 13 of the 2005 Regulations or is registered in respect of such storage under regulation 11 of those Regulations, shall be —
(a)where the disposal or decontamination is carried out by, or on behalf of, a person who holds a licence granted by the Executive under those Regulations in a case in which the assent of the local authority was required under regulation 13(3) of those Regulations before the licence was granted, the Executive;
(b)subject to sub-paragraph (a), where the local authority is by virtue of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998 the enforcing authority for the premises or part of premises at which the disposal or decontamination is carried out, the local authority; or
(c)in any other case, the Executive.
(11) For the purposes of paragraphs (7) to (10), “ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate”, “disposes”, “licence”, “licensing authority”, “registered” and “site” have the same meanings as they are given by regulation 2(1) of the 2005 Regulations and “deemed licence” and “deemed registration” have the same meanings as they are given by regulation 27(19) of those Regulations.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 4(3)(e) substituted (S.) (2.8.2005) by The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2060), art. 1(2)(f), Sch. para. 13
F2Words in reg. 4(3)(e) inserted (W.) (25.10.2005) by The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2929), arts. 1(1), 45, Words in reg. 4(3)(e) inserted (E.) (30.12.2004) by The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3168), arts. 1(1), 46
F3Reg. 4(7)-(11) substituted for reg. 4(7) (with application in accordance with reg. 3 of the amending S.I.) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1082), regs. 1(1), 28(1), Sch. 5 para. 41
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.1998, see reg. 1