Paragraph 5 Power to inspect and test fireworksI1

Scotland Not yet in force

(1)

An officer of a local weights and measures authority may—

(a)

inspect a firework or an item suspected to be a firework on the premises,

(b)

arrange for a firework or an item suspected to be a firework to be tested (and may seize and retain the firework or item under paragraph 6 to do so).

(2)

Inspection and testing under this paragraph may carried out only for the purposes of determining—

(a)

whether or not an item is a firework, or

(b)

the category of a firework (or suspected firework) for the purposes of this Act (see section 2).

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