{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-explosives-regulations-1991/regulation-n8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-explosives-regulations-1991/regulation-n8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1531",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Explosives Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-explosives-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/n8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transfer of explosives",
  "text": "No person shall transfer any explosive to another unless he is satisfied that–\n(a) the transferee has an explosives certificate certifying him to be a fit person to acquire that explosive;\n(b) the explosive is for immediate export to a transferee resident outside the United Kingdom and any licence relating to the transfer under the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939 has been granted;\n(c) the explosive is for immediate transport to Northern Ireland and the transferee has police consent under regulation 11(1) of the Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1970;\n(d) the explosive is for transport to an offshore installation in controlled waters as both those terms are defined in section 1(4) of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971; or\n(e) the transferee is a person specified in regulation 3(3) or (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1939 c. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1970 No. 110."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1971 c. 61; section 1 was substituted by the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23), section 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1531/regulation/n8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:41:52.410050+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."
}