# The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005, Paragraph 1

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

Subject to regulation 27(9) and (11) and paragraphs 2 to 4 , “licensing authority” means —
(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 —
(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;
(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
(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;
(b) where the application for a licence relates to the manufacture of any ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate, the Executive;
(c) in relation to an application for a licence in any other case, the Executive.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1082/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/manufacture-and-storage-of-explosives-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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