Control of Fireworks and other Explosives

L.N. 297 of 2015

EXPLOSIVES ORDINANCE

(CAP. 33)

Control of Fireworks and other Explosives

(Amendment) Regulations, 2015

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 22 of the

Explosives Ordinance, the Minister for Home Affairs and National

Security has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Control of Fireworks Citation.

and other Explosives (Amendment) Regulations, 2015 and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Control of S.L. 33.03

Fireworks and other Explosives Regulations, hereinafter referred to

as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 4 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

immediately after sub-regulation (3A) thereof, there

shall be added the following new sub-regulation

"(3B) Category "A" licence and Category "B"

licence shall be valid for a maximum period of five years

from the date of issuance of such licences."; and

(b) immediately after sub-regulation (6) thereof, there

shall be added the following new sub-regulation

"(6A) Category "C" licence shall be valid for a

maximum period of five years from the date of issuance of

such licence.".

Regulation 21 of the principal regulations shall be Amends

regulation 21 of

amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

the current provision shall be re-numbered as sub-

regulation (1) thereof; and

(b) immediately after sub-regulation (1) thereof, there

shall be added the following new sub-regulations

"(2) The Commissioner may, following the advice

of, and with the conditions set by, the Explosives

Committee, allocate a yearly quota not exceeding 1000

kilos of potassium nitrate, between the 1st October and the

30th September of the following year, to an organisation

for the exclusive use for the manufacture of black powder

for use at authorised re-enactments, filming or related

events that involve the firing of blank shots.

(3) The potassium nitrate allocated under this

regulation shall be collected from the appropriate Armed

Forces of Malta storage facility and shall be used for the

manufacture of black powder by the fireworks factory

contracted to manufacture such black powder by any such

organisation. The manufactured black powder shall be

stored at the aforementioned fireworks factory until such

time as the black powder is to be used

Provided that no fireworks factory shall enter

into more than one contract or arrangement for the

manufacture of black powder for a third party at any given

time.".

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