{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-poisons-and-explosives-precursors-regulations-2015/schedule/part-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/966",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Poisons and Explosives Precursors Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-poisons-and-explosives-precursors-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS",
  "text": "Table 1\nPoison\nSubstance or article in which exempted\nAmmonia\nSubstances not being solutions of ammonia or preparations containing solutions of ammonia; substances containing less than 10%, weight in weight, of ammonia (NH); refrigerators\nArsenic; its compounds\nPyrites ores or sulphuric acid containing arsenic or compounds of arsenic as natural impurities; in reagent kits or reagent devices, supplied for medical or veterinary purposes, substances containing less than 0.1%, weight in weight, of arsanilic acid\nBarium, salts of\nWitherite other than finely ground witherite; barium carbonate bonded to charcoal for case hardening; fire extinguishers containing barium chloride; sealed smoke generators containing not more than 25%, weight in weight, of barium carbonate\nBromomethane\nFire extinguishers\nFormaldehyde\nSubstances containing less than 5%, weight in weight, of formaldehyde (H.CHO); photographic glazing or hardening solutions\nFormic acid\nSubstances containing less than 25%, weight in weight, of formic acid (H.COOH)\nHydrochloric acid\nSubstances containing less than 10%, weight in weight, of hydrochloric acid (HC1)\nHydrogen cyanide\nPreparations of wild cherry; in reagent kits supplied for medical or veterinary purposes, substances containing less than the equivalent of 0.1%, weight in weight, of hydrogen cyanide (HCN)\nMethomyl\nSolid substances containing not more than 1%, weight in weight, of methomyl\nNicotine; its salts; its quaternary compounds\nTobacco; in cigarettes, the paper of a cigarette (excluding any part of that paper forming part of or surrounding a filter), where that paper in each cigarette does not have more than the equivalent of 10 milligrams of nicotine; preparations in aerosol dispensers containing not more than 0.2% of nicotine, weight in weight; other liquid preparations, and solid preparations with a soap base, containing not more than 7.5% of nicotine, weight in weight\nOxamyl\nGranular preparations\nOxydemeton-methyl\nAerosol dispensers containing not more than 0.25%, weight in weight, of oxydemeton-methyl\nPhenols\nLiquid disinfectants and antiseptics containing less than 0.5% phenol and containing less than 5% of other phenols;\nmotor fuel treatments not containing phenol and containing less than 2.5% of other phenols; in reagent kits supplied for medical or veterinary purposes;\nsolid substances containing less than 60% of phenols;\nin tar oil distillation fractions containing not more than 5% of phenols;\nPhosphoric acid\nSubstances containing phosphoric acid, not being descaling preparations containing more than 50%, weight in weight, of ortho-phosphoric acid\nPotassium hydroxide\nSubstances containing the equivalent of less than 17% of total caustic alkalinity expressed as potassium hydroxide; accumulators; batteries\nSodium fluoride\nSubstances containing less than 3% of sodium fluoride as a preservative\nSodium hydroxide\nSubstances containing the equivalent of less than 12% of total caustic alkalinity expressed as sodium hydroxide\nSodium silicofluoride\nSubstances containing less than 3% of sodium silicofluoride as a preservative",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/966/schedule/part/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:39:20.691628+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."
}