The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005

Registers and retention of documents

22.—(1) The licensing authority shall —

(a) maintain a register in accordance with Schedule 4;

(b) keep a copy of any licence granted or certificate of registration issued by it (together with a copy of the application for the licence or registration) for as long as the licence or registration remains valid; and

(c) (except where the Executive is the licensing authority), send to the Executive on request a copy of any part of the register or other document specified in this paragraph within such time as the Executive may direct.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation and Schedule 4, in the case to which regulation 3(5) applies disapplying regulations 5 and 9 to 21, any reference to —

(a) the licensing authority or licensee shall be construed as a reference to the Secretary of State for Defence;

(b) any licence granted shall be construed as a reference to the scheme referred to in regulation 3(5);

(c) separation distances shall be construed as a reference to the separation distances prescribed in the scheme approved by the Secretary of State for Defence.