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EXPLOSIVES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 3

Explosives Regulations.

3.(1) The Minister of Home Affairs (in this Act referred to as "the Minister")
may make regulations (to be known and in this Act referred to as "Explosives
Regulations") for imposing such prohibitions or restrictions (in addition to
the prohibitions or restrictions imposed by or under the principal Acts or
this Act) as may be necessary or expedient for controlling and regulating the
following matters, that is to say, the manufacture, sale, acquisition,
transfer, storing, transportation, handling, use or disposal of explosives or
the sale or use of fireworks including regulations requiring conditions to be
observed and records to be kept of or in connection with all or any of those
matters.

(2) Any provision which may be made (whether by the Minister or by any other
authority) with respect to any of the matters mentioned in subsection (1) by
instrument under the principal Acts may be made by Explosives Regulations.

(3) Explosives Regulations may prescribe the form of any register or record
required to be kept and the form and duration of any licence, permit,
certificate, authorisation or other document issued under the Regulations or
under this Act, the terms and conditions on and subject to which any such
document may be issued, suspended or cancelled, the fees to be paid for the
issue thereof, and the manner in which such fees are to be applied.

(4) Every person who acts in contravention of any provision contained in
Explosives Regulations or of any condition of any document issued thereunder
shall be guilty of an offence, and unless some penalty is otherwise expressly
provided by or under this Act for such contravention, shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred pounds or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and
imprisonment.

(5) Explosives Regulations shall be subject to affirmative resolution.

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