# The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005, Regulation 11: Registration in relation to storage

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Subject to paragraph (5), a person who wishes to store within one site at any one time no more than —
(a) 30 kilograms of explosives of any hazard type;
(b) 100 kilograms of hazard type 3 explosives;
(c) 100 kilograms of a combination of hazard type 3 explosives with explosives of hazard type 4;
(d) 250 kilograms of hazard type 4 explosives; or
(e) 250 kilograms of small arms ammunition and percussion caps and 30 kilograms of shooters' powder;
may apply to the licensing authority in whose area the storage will take place to be registered in respect of that storage.
(2) The licensing authority shall register the applicant unless any of the grounds for refusing to do so referred to in regulation 15 apply.
(3) Where a licensing authority registers an applicant, it shall issue the applicant with a certificate of registration, in a form approved for the time being for the purposes of this regulation by the Executive.
(4) A registration, not being a renewal of a registration, granted by a licensing authority which is a local authority shall remain in force for such period not exceeding two years as the licensing authority determines.
(4A) A registration, not being a renewal of a registration, granted by a licensing authority which is a chief officer of police , the Executive or the ONR shall remain in force for such period not exceeding five years as that licensing authority determines, save that, where the applicant for registration has been granted an explosives certificate, the registration shall remain in force for any period not exceeding the due expiry date of that explosives certificate.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1) no more than one of ... sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of paragraph (1) shall apply to explosives stored at the same site at the same time, irrespective of the person who is storing them.
(6) Where the registration relates to the storage at a site of pyrotechnic articles which are to be offered for sale at that site, the amount of those pyrotechnic articles which may be kept for any period of time in a sales area at that site shall be restricted to the amount determined in accordance with Schedule 3 and for these purposes and those of Schedule 3, “sales area” means an area where pyrotechnic articles are sold and to which any person who is not an employee of the person who is registered in respect of the storage of those pyrotechnic articles has access.
(7) No application for registration may be made in respect of the storage of explosives at a site at which the manufacture of explosives , other than manufacture not requiring a licence by virtue of regulation 9(2), also takes place or is to take place.
(8) The quantities referred to in paragraph (1) are the maximum quantities of the explosives ... they respectively relate to which may be present at a registered site at any one time.
(9) A renewal of registration granted by a licensing authority which is a local authority shall remain in force for such period not exceeding one year as the licensing authority determines.
(9A) A renewal of a registration granted by a licensing authority which is a chief officer of police , the Executive or the ONR shall remain in force for such period not exceeding five years as that licensing authority determines, save that, where the applicant for registration has been granted an explosives certificate, the registration shall remain in force for any period not exceeding the due expiry date of that explosives certificate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1082/regulation/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/manufacture-and-storage-of-explosives-regulations-2005/regulation-11
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