Paragraph 1 I1F1
United Kingdom
Subject to regulation 27(9) and (11) and F2paragraphs 2 to 4 , “licensing authority” means —
in relation to an application for registration, or for a licence for the storage within one site of no more than 2000 kilograms of explosives to which paragraph (a)(i) or (b) of the definition of “explosive” in regulation 2(1) applies —
the chief officer of police for the area in which the storage is to take place where any of the explosives are of a type not listed in Schedule 1 to the Control of Explosives Regulations 1991f1;
the local authority for the area in which the storage is to take place where all the explosives are of a type listed in Schedule 1 to the Control of Explosives Regulations 1991; or
the Executive where the explosives are to be stored F3on the surface at a mine, whether in a building or not, or within a harbour;
where the application for a licence relates to the manufacture of any ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate, the Executive;
in relation to an application for a licence in any other case, the Executive.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
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)
- F2
Words in Sch. 1 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 121(a) (with Sch. 4)
- F3
Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(a)(iii) substituted (6.4.2009) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/693), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 4(18)(a)
Commencement
- I1
Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 26.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)
Footnotes
- f1
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S.I. 1991/1531; amended by S.I. 1993/2714.