{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-fireworks-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/147",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives (Fireworks) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-fireworks-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\nthe “2015 Regulations” means the Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015;\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n“category F1 firework” has the meaning set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (categories of pyrotechnic article) to the 2015 Regulations;\n“category F2 firework” has the meaning set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the 2015 Regulations;\n“category F3 firework” has the meaning set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 2015 Regulations;\n...\n...\n“enforcing authority” has the meaning set out in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the 2015 Regulations;\n“firework” means any article, intended for entertainment purposes, containing explosive substances or an explosive mixture of substances designed to produce heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of such effects through self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions;\n...\n...\n“pyrotechnic composition” means a substance or a mixture of substances designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as the result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions;\n“sparkler” means a firework comprising a rigid wire partially coated with slow burning pyrotechnic composition, the functioning of which involves the emission of sparks without a report;\n...",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (17.8.2015) by The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (4.7.2010) by virtue of The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1554), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 2(1) (with regs. 3, 49(12)(13))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (17.8.2015) by The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (17.8.2015) by The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (17.8.2015) by The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (17.8.2015) by The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (17.8.2015) by The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 6.5.2002, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/147/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:50.096064+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."
}