The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005

Registration in relation to storage

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (5), a person who wishes to store within one site at any one time no more than —

(a) 30 kilograms of explosives of any hazard type;

(b) 100 kilograms of hazard type 3 explosives;

(c) 100 kilograms of a combination of hazard type 3 explosives with explosives of hazard type 4;

(d) 250 kilograms of hazard type 4 explosives; or

(e) 250 kilograms of small arms ammunition and percussion caps and 30 kilograms of shooters' powder;

may apply to the licensing authority in whose area the storage will take place to be registered in respect of that storage.

(2) The licensing authority shall register the applicant unless any of the grounds for refusing to do so referred to in regulation 15 apply.

(3) Where a licensing authority registers an applicant, it shall issue the applicant with a certificate of registration, in a form approved for the time being for the purposes of this regulation by the Executive.

(4) A registration, not being a renewal of a registration, shall remain in force for such period not exceeding two years as the licensing authority determines, save that —

(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b), where the applicant for the registration has been granted an explosives certificate, a registration may be granted for any period not exceeding the due expiry date of that explosives certificate where that date is later than that two year period; or

(b) where the application for registration relates, whether solely or not, to the storage of smokeless powder, a registration may be granted for any period not exceeding three years.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1) no more than one of the exceptions listed in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of paragraph (1) shall apply to explosives stored at the same site at the same time, irrespective of the person who is storing them.

(6) Where the registration relates to the storage at a site of pyrotechnic articles which are to be offered for sale at that site, the amount of those pyrotechnic articles which may be kept for any period of time in a sales area at that site shall be restricted to the amount determined in accordance with Schedule 3 and for these purposes and those of Schedule 3, “sales area” means an area where pyrotechnic articles are sold and to which any person who is not an employee of the person who is registered in respect of the storage of those pyrotechnic articles has access.

(7) No application for registration may be made in respect of the storage of explosives at a site at which the manufacture of explosives also takes place or is to take place.

(8) The quantities referred to in paragraph (1) are the maximum quantities of the explosives or explosive articles they respectively relate to which may be present at a registered site at any one time.

(9) A renewal of a registration may be granted for any period not exceeding one year, save that—

(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b), where the applicant for the renewal has been granted an explosives certificate, a renewal of a registration may be granted for any period not exceeding the due expiry date of that explosive certificate where that date is later than that one year period; or

(b) where the application for renewal of registration relates solely to the storage of smokeless powder, a renewal of registration may be granted for any period not exceeding three years.