The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Regulation 21

SCHEDULE 5 REGISTER

1.  The Secretary of State shall maintain a register (“the register”) containing the information listed in paragraph 2 which relates to licences granted and certificates of registration issued by him.

2.  The following information shall be included in the register—

(a) the name of the licensee or registered person;

(b) his permanent address, unless his home address is his only permanent address;

(c) the address of the site where the explosives are manufactured or stored (where that differs from any address included pursuant to sub-paragraph (b));

(d) the hazard type and maximum quantity of explosives which may be manufactured or stored at any one time;

(e) the nature of the business of the licensee or registered person and the intended use of the explosives;

(f) the name and description of the explosives manufactured or stored;

(g) a plan in a suitable scale which shows the separation distances required by regulation 5 or a condition of the licence to be maintained around the building where explosives are manufactured or the store;

(h) where the address of the site does not have a street number and postcode, a map in a suitable scale which shows the exact location of the building where explosives are manufactured or the store; and

(i) in relation to licences to store more than 2000 kilograms of explosives, the kind of store concerned, including the material of which it is constructed.

3.  The register may be kept in any form, including electronically.

4.  Subject to paragraph 6, the Secretary of State shall—

(a) ensure that the information referred to in paragraph 2(a) to (d) in respect of a licence or registration is available for inspection, at all reasonable times and free of charge, by a person who resides, or by an undertaking situated, within the public consultation zone concerned in relation to the licence or registration; and

(b) provide a copy of the entry in the register relating to the information referred to in sub-paragraph 2(a) to (d) in respect of that licence or registration only to such a person or undertaking as referred to in sub-paragraph (a) who requests a copy and pays a charge which shall not exceed the reasonable cost of providing the copy.

5.  The licensee or registered person in relation to any site in which explosives are manufactured or stored shall, when requested in writing to do so by the owner or, if not the same person, the occupier, of any premises falling within any separation distance applying in relation to that site, provide to the requesting person within 28 days of the request a scale plan of the area of land falling within that separation distance.

6.  The requirements of paragraph 4 shall not apply where the information referred to in paragraph 2 is in respect of any site to which a licence or registration relates which is used only for the storage of—

(a) less than 500 kilograms of Hazard Type 1 explosive or Hazard Type 2 explosive;

(b) less than 2000 kilograms of Hazard Type 3 explosive or Hazard Type 4 explosive; or

(c) any explosives for a period of less than 4 weeks.

7.  Nothing in this Schedule shall prevent the Secretary of State from disclosing any of the information in the register to the Department of the Environment for the purpose of the exercise of its functions.