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The Explosives Regulations 2014

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1.  Subject to paragraphs 2 to 5, “licensing authority” means—

(a)in relation to an application for a licence for the storage within one site of no more than 2000 kilograms of explosives to which paragraph (a)(i) or (b) of the definition of “explosive” in regulation 2(1) applies—

(i)the chief officer of police for the area in which the storage is to take place where—

(aa)any of the explosives are relevant explosives;

(bb)any of the explosives are ammunition the acquisition of which is regulated or prohibited by virtue of the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997(1);

(cc)any of the explosives are smokeless powder or percussion caps; or

(dd)the explosives are to be stored by a person who is registered as a firearms dealer under section 33 of the Firearms Act 1968(2);

(ii)the local authority for the area in which the storage is to take place where none of the explosives are of a type to which sub-paragraph (a)(i) applies;

(b)the Executive where the explosives are to be stored on the surface at a mine, whether in a building or not, or within a harbour;

(c)where the application for a licence relates to the manufacture or storage of ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate, the Executive;

(d)in relation to an application for a licence in any other case, the Executive.

(2)

1968 c.27; section 33(3) was amended by the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45), section 13(1) and the Firearms Act 1997 (c. 5), section 42(2).

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