# The Explosives Regulations 2014, Regulation 19: Refusal of an explosives certificate


(1) A chief officer of police must not issue an explosives certificate to a person if the chief officer of police is satisfied that the person is of unsound mind or intemperate habit.
(2) A chief officer of police must not issue an explosives certificate to a person unless the chief officer of police is satisfied that—
(a) the person has good reason for acquiring the relevant explosives;
(b) the person is a responsible person who may be permitted to acquire the relevant explosives without danger to public safety or peace;
(c) the person will take all reasonable precautions to prevent access to the relevant explosives by unauthorised persons and to prevent loss of those explosives;
(d) the person is not a prohibited person;
(e) where the person is a body corporate, no director or secretary of the body corporate, and where the person is a Scottish firm, no partner in the firm, is a prohibited person;
(f) where the application is for an explosives certificate relating only to acquisition of relevant explosives—
(i) it is not reasonably practicable for the applicant to be an occupier of a site for the storage of relevant explosives for which the person would be required to have a licence, and
(ii) either the relevant explosives will not be kept, or, if kept, the applicant will ensure that they are kept at a site where such storage is permitted pursuant to a licence or at a site occupied by the Secretary of State having responsibility for defence; and
(g) where the application is for an explosives certificate relating to the keeping of relevant explosives, either—
(i) the applicant will ensure that the relevant explosives are kept at a site where the storage is permitted pursuant to a licence;
(ii) the relevant explosives will be kept at a site occupied on behalf of the Crown, or
(iii) in the case where the applicant does not hold a licence in respect of the storage of the relevant explosives, no licence is required to be held by the applicant in respect of that storage by virtue of regulation 7(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1638/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-regulations-2014/regulation-19
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