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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manufacture-and-storage-of-explosives-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to regulation 27(9) and (11) and paragraphs 2 to 4 , “licensing authority” means —\n(a) 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 —\n(i) 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 1991;\n(ii) 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\n(iii) the Executive where the explosives are to be stored on the surface at a mine, whether in a building or not, or within a harbour;\n(b) where the application for a licence relates to the manufacture of any ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate, the Executive;\n(c) in relation to an application for a licence in any other case, the Executive.",
  "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 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 26.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1531; amended by S.I. 1993/2714."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1082/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}