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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-explosives-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/204",
  "legislation_title": "Quarries (Explosives) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-explosives-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“appoint” in relation to a person means appoint in writing with a written statement summarising his duties and authority;\n“competent” in relation to a person means a person with sufficient training, experience, knowledge and other qualities to enable him properly to undertake the duties assigned to him;\n“detonator” means an initiator for explosives that contains a charge of high explosive fired by means of a flame, spark, electric current or shock tube;\n“excavation” means any place at the quarry where minerals are or have been extracted and includes the ground, faces or sides of the quarry and any other incline;\n“exploder” means a device designed for firing detonators;\n“explosive” means an explosive article or explosive substance;\n“explosive article” means an article containing one or more explosive substances;\n“explosive substance” means—\n(a)a solid or liquid substance, or\n(b)a mixture of solid or liquid substances or both,\nwhich is capable by chemical reaction in itself of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as could cause damage to surroundings or which is designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as a result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions;\n“explosives” means explosive articles or explosive substances;\n“explosives store” means a building, enclosed area or metal structure where explosives are stored under a licence granted or registration issued under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006;\n“misfire” means an occurrence in relation to the firing of shots where—\n(a)testing before firing reveals broken continuity which cannot be rectified; or\n(b)a shot or any part of a shot fails to explode when an attempt is made to fire it;\n“operator” in relation to a quarry means the person in overall control of the working of the quarry;\n“quarry” has the meaning assigned to it by the Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006;\n“safety fuse” means a flexible cord that contains an internal burning medium by which fire is conveyed at a continuous and uniform rate for the purpose of firing plain detonators or black powder, without initiating burning in a similar fuse that may be in lateral contact;\n“shot” means a single shot or a series of shots fired as part of one blast;\n“shotfirer” means a person appointed pursuant to regulation 4(2)(a)(ii) to be responsible for shotfiring operations;\n“shotfiring operations” include—\n(a)checking to ensure that the blasting specification is still appropriate for the site conditions at the time the blasting is to take place;\n(b)mixing explosives;\n(c)priming a cartridge;\n(d)charging and stemming a shothole;\n(e)linking or connecting a round of shots;\n(f)withdrawal and sheltering of persons;\n(g)inspecting and testing a shotfiring circuit;\n(h)firing a shot; and\n(i)checking for misfires;\n“trainee shotfirer” means a person appointed pursuant to regulation 4(2)(a)(ii) to undergo training in shotfiring operations under the close personal supervision of a shotfirer; and\n“vehicle” means any mechanically propelled vehicle (including mechanically propelled plant).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.12.2006) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/425), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.8.2006, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 205"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/204/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:54.179589+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."
}