The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005

Explosives not to be stored without a licence

10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall store explosives unless he holds a licence for their storage and complies with the conditions of that licence.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to —

(a) the storage of explosives by a person registered in accordance with regulation 11;

(b) the storage of one or more of the following —

(i) no more than 10 kilograms of black powder;

(ii) no more than 5 kilograms of —

(aa) shooters' powder;

(bb) any explosive or combination of explosives listed in Schedule 1 to the Control of Explosives Regulations 1991; or

(cc) a combination of shooters' powder and any one or more of the explosives listed in Schedule 1 to those Regulations;

(iii) no more than 15 kilograms of percussion caps or small arms ammunition or a mixture of them;

(c) the storage of no more than 7 kilograms of —

(i) hazard type 1 or 2 explosives, or

(ii) a combination of hazard type 1 or 2 explosives with explosives of another hazard type,

for no longer than 24 hours;

(d) the storage of hazard type 3 or 4 explosives for no longer than 24 hours;

(e) the storage of no more than 100 kilograms of —

(i) hazard type 3 explosives consisting of fireworks;

(ii) shooters' powders; or

(iii) a combination of shooters' powders and hazard type 3 and 4 explosives consisting of fireworks,

provided that the explosives are stored for no longer than 3 days in their place of intended use;

(f) the storage of —

(i) no more than 250 kilograms of hazard type 4 explosives provided that the explosives are stored for no more than 3 days in their place of intended use; or

(ii) no more than 50 kilograms of hazard type 4 explosives consisting solely of fireworks provided that the fireworks are stored for no longer than 21 days and are not for sale or for use at work;

(g) the storage of desensitised explosives which have been allocated in accordance with the United Nations Recommendations the U.N. nos. 2059, 2555, 2556, 2557, 1336 or 1337;

(h) the storage of explosives by a company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of another company at a site in relation to which that other company holds a licence to store explosives and that storage by the wholly-owned subsidiary is in accordance with the terms and conditions of that licence.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) —

(a) no more than one of the exceptions listed in subparagraphs (a) to (f) of paragraph (2) may be relied on in relation to explosives stored at the same site at the same time, irrespective of the person who is storing them; and

(b) the quantities referred to in that paragraph are the maximum quantities of the explosives or explosive articles they respectively relate to which may be present at a site at any one time.