{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-explosives-by-road-regulations-1996/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-explosives-by-road-regulations-1996/regulation-29.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Carriage of Explosives by Road Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-explosives-by-road-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Exemption certificates",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to any provisions imposed by the Communities in respect of the transport of explosives by road, the Health and Safety Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt any—\n(a) person or class of person;\n(b) any explosive or class of explosive;\n(c) any vehicle or container or class thereof,\nfrom all or any requirements or prohibitions imposed by these Regulations and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked at any time, by a further certificate in writing by the Health and Safety Executive.\n(2) The Health and Safety Executive shall not grant any such exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances of the case, and in particular to—\n(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactment which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that neither the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption nor the security of the explosives will be prejudiced in consequence of it.\n(3) The Secretary of State for Defence may in the interests of national security exempt by a certificate in writing from all or any requirements or prohibitions imposed by these Regulations any particular, or class of—\n(a) military explosive;\n(b) person engaged in the carriage of military explosive;\n(c) vehicle used for the carriage of military explosive,\nand any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked at any time by the said Secretary of State by a further certificate in writing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/303",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2093/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:09.205420+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}