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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manufacture-and-storage-of-explosives-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1082",
  "legislation_title": "The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manufacture-and-storage-of-explosives-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Explosives not to be manufactured without a licence",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall manufacture explosives unless he holds a licence for that manufacture and complies with the conditions of that licence.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to —\n(a) the manufacture of explosives for the purpose of laboratory analysis, testing, demonstration or experimentation (but not for practical use or sale) where the total quantity of explosives being manufactured at any time does not exceed 100 grams, but nothing in this sub-paragraph shall be taken as authorising any acquisition or keeping of explosives for which an explosives certificate is required by virtue of regulation 7 of the Control of Explosives Regulations 1991, without such a certificate;\n(b) the making or unmaking of small arms ammunition, or the preparation of cartridges for use with firearms which are to be used at historical re-enactment events, where the total quantity of primer and propellant used at any one time does not exceed 2 kilograms and, for these purposes, the quantity of propellant used includes propellant removed from cartridges;\n(c) the preparation of shot firing charges in connection with their use;\n(d) the preparation, assembly, disassembly and fusing of firework displays at the place of intended use;\n(e) the preparation, assembly and fusing of fireworks, in quantities of no more than 10 kilograms at a time, at a site in relation to which a person holds a licence or registration for the storage of explosives, for the purposes of a firework display to be put on by that person;\n(f) the preparation, assembly and fusing of explosives commissioned for use in theatrical, television or cinematic special effects;\n(g) the reprocessing of an explosive to form a pharmaceutical product which is not in itself an explosive;\n(h) the mixing for immediate use of —\n(i) ammonium nitrate with fuel oil; or\n(ii) ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate with another substance,\nat a mine or quarry, to produce an explosive which is not cap-sensitive;\n(i) the use of desensitised explosives in the manufacture of products which are not in themselves explosives; or\n(j) the manufacture of explosives by a company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of another company at a site in relation to which that other company holds a licence to manufacture explosives and that manufacture by the wholly-owned subsidiary is in accordance with the ... conditions of that licence.\n(3) In this regulation —\n(a) in paragraph (2)(c), “shot firing charges” means charges used in shot firing operations; and\n(b) in paragraph (2)(h), “cap-sensitive” means an explosive which gives a positive result when tested in accordance with the Series 5(a) test of the Manual of Tests and Criteria, third edition supporting the United Nations Recommendations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (with savings) (1.10.2014) by The Explosives Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1638), reg. 1(1), Sch. 14 Pt. 2 (with reg. 47)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(2)(a) substituted (1.10.2007) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives and the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) (Amendment and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2598), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(2)(j) omitted (6.4.2009) by virtue of The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/693), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 4(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 26.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "ISBN 92 - 1 - 1390680."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1082/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:00:10.382375+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."
}