The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

7.  In regulation 15 (variation of licences)—

(a) at the end of the heading, add “and registration”;

(b) in paragraph (1)(b), after “11(4)” add “, or in cases where that procedure was not required by virtue of regulation 11(5)(e),”; and

(c) after paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) The Secretary of State may vary a registration—

(a) where there has been a change of circumstances such that the separation distances can no longer be maintained and a consequent reduction in the quantity of explosives that may be stored is required so as to reduce that quantity to one specified by the Secretary of State which is below the maximum quantity referred to in regulation 13(1) for the kind of explosives concerned;

(b) so as to change the period for which the registration is in operation; and

(c) in relation to any of the matters to which it relates, by agreement with the registered person.”.