{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-3A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Fireworks (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Prohibition of supply of certain fireworks outside permitted hours",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) no person shall supply an adult firework outside permitted hours.\n(2) In this regulation “permitted hours” means the period beginning at 07.00 and ending at 18.00.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall not prohibit the supply of fireworks outside permitted hours to any person—\n(a) who is employed by, or in business as, a professional organiser or operator of fireworks displays,\n(b) who is employed by a business engaged in, or whose trade or business (or part of whose trade or business) is, the supply of fireworks in accordance with the provisions of the Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015,\n(c) who is employed by a local authority and the fireworks in question are to be used—\n(i) for the purposes of putting on a fireworks display by that local authority, or\n(ii) at a national public celebration or commemorative event,\n(d) who is the organiser of a public fireworks display and the fireworks in question are to be used for the purposes of putting on a public fireworks display on behalf of a charitable, religious, youth, recreational, community, political or similar organisation, or\n(e) who is outside Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3A, 3B inserted (30.6.2021) by The Fireworks (Scotland) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/79), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/393/regulation/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:49.929499+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."
}