Placing on the Market of Pyrotechnic Articles

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,157, 25 ta’ Ottubru, 2013

L.N. 353 of 2013

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

EXPLOSIVES ORDINANCE

(CAP. 33)

Placing on the Market of Pyrotechnic Articles

(Amendment) Regulations, 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 and 39 of the

Product Safety Act, the Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer

Affairs and Civil Liberties, in consultation with the Minister for

Home Affairs, and on the advice of the Malta Competition and

Consumer Affairs Authority, has made the following regulations

(1) The title of these regulations is the Placing on the Citation, scope

Market of Pyrotechnic Articles (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and and

commencement.

these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Placing S.L. 427.70

on the Market of Pyrotechnic Articles Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations transpose point 4 of Annex I of

Directive 2013/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 12 June 2013 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member

States relating to the making available on the market of pyrotechnic

articles (recast).

(3) These regulations shall apply to pyrotechnic articles falling

under the scope of the principal regulations.

(4) These regulations shall be deemed tyo have come into

force on 4th July 2013.

Paragraph 4 of the First Schedule to the principal Amends the

First Schedule

regulations shall be substituted the following

to the principal

regulations.

"4. Pyrotechnic articles must not contain detonative

explosives other than black powder and flash composition,

except for pyrotechnic articles of categories P1, P2, T2 and

fireworks of category 4 meeting the following conditions

(a) the detonative explosive cannot be easily

extracted from the pyrotechnic article;

(b) for category P1, the pyrotechnic article

cannot function in a detonative manner, or cannot, as

designed and manufactured, initiate secondary explosives;

(c) for fireworks of category 4 and pyrotechnic

articles of categories T2 and P2, the pyrotechnic article is

designed and intended not to function in a detonative

manner, or, if designed to detonate, it cannot as designed

and manufactured initiate secondary explosives.".

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