{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-fireworks-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-fireworks-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibition on the possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, handling or use of fireworks",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 9, the possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, handling or use of fireworks by a person other than a ... Constable or representative of an enforcing authority acting in his capacity as such shall be prohibited except under licence issued by the Secretary of State.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) omitted (17.8.2015) by virtue of The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1553), reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(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(2) (with regs. 3, 49(12)(13))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}