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The Control of Explosives Precursors and Poisons Regulations 2023

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3.—(1) A person must not supply a regulated explosives precursor to a business customer unless the person first complies with the requirements imposed by paragraphs (2) to (4) (but see paragraph (6)).

(2) The person must obtain the following from the business customer—

(a)the business customer’s name and address;

(b)if the business customer is not an individual, the name of an individual who is authorised on behalf of the business customer to acquire the regulated explosives precursor;

(c)a form of photographic identification of the business customer or, if the business customer is not an individual, of the individual referred to in sub-paragraph (b);

(d)a statement of the nature of the business customer’s trade, business or profession, or of the public function that the business customer performs; and

(e)the business customer’s VAT registration number, if the business customer has such a number.

(3) The person must be reasonably satisfied that acquisition of the regulated explosives precursor by the business customer is reasonably consistent with the nature of the business customer’s trade, business or profession, or of the public function that the business customer performs.

(4) The person must make a record of the information, document and statement obtained from the business customer in accordance with paragraph (2).

(5) The person must preserve the record referred to in paragraph (4) for a period of 18 months beginning with the date on which the record is made.

(6) A person may supply a regulated explosives precursor to a business customer without first complying with the requirements imposed by paragraphs (2) and (4) if—

(a)the person has made an earlier supply of a regulated explosives precursor to the business customer;

(b)the person made the record referred to in paragraph (4) in relation to that earlier supply (“the record”);

(c)the person continues to hold the record; and

(d)the period that has elapsed since the date on which the record was made is not more than 18 months.

(7) In this regulation “VAT registration number” means the number allocated by the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to a person registered under the Value Added Tax Act 1994(1).

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