Prohibitions on supply of certain category 2 or 3 fireworksU.K.
21.—(1) No person shall supply a category 2 or 3 firework of the following description—
(a)an aerial wheel;
(b)a banger, flash banger or double banger;
(c)a jumping cracker;
(d)a jumping ground spinner;
(e)a spinner;
(f)a mini rocket;
(g)a shot tube—
(i)which produces a report as its principal effect, previously known as an air bomb; or
(ii)the inside diameter of which is greater than 30mm, previously known as a shell-in-mortar;
(h)a battery containing bangers, flash bangers or double bangers;
(i)a combination (other than a wheel) which includes one or more bangers, flash bangers or double bangers.
(2) Paragraph (1)(b) does not prohibit the supply of a category 2 or 3 firework as part of a wheel.
(3) Paragraph (1) does not prohibit the supply of a category 2 or 3 firework to a person with specialist knowledge.
(4) No person who carries on a business involving, to whatever extent, the supply of fireworks by retail shall supply a category 2 or 3 firework which has been removed, caused to be removed, or that person knows to have been removed from a selection pack or primary pack of fireworks, intended for retail sale as a single unit, made up of the same or different types of fireworks.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, the definitions of fireworks and packs of fireworks are set out in Schedule 3.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 21 in force at 4.7.2010, see reg. 1(1)