- chief officer of police
includes any other member of a police force who has been authorised in writing by the chief officer of police to act on his behalf for the purposes of these Regulations;
- explosive
means any explosive article or explosive substance (as each is defined in regulation 2(1) of the 1983 Regulations) which has been assigned on classification under the 1983 Regulations to Class 1;
- explosives certificate
means the certificate described in regulation 4;
- fireworks
means the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations any of the U.N. nos. 0333 to 0337;
- fog signals
means the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations the U.N. no. 0193;
- for private use
means for a person’s own use or use by his employees in the course of their employment, and not for sale;
- gunpowder
means the explosive substance allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations the U.N. no. 0027;
- license
means any of the following granted under the Explosives Act 1875 in respect of a factory or magazine– (a) a license, (b) an amending license, or, (c) a continuing certificate which is deemed by that Act to be a license;
- occupier
has the same meaning as in section 108 of the Explosives Act 1875;
- percussion caps
means any of the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations the U.N. nos. 0044, 0377 or 0378;
- prohibited person
means, subject to regulation 9(3), a person, other than a person in respect of whom an order has been made under regulation 6(4), who– (a) has been convicted of any offence under the Explosive Substances Act 1883, or (b) has been sentenced to imprisonment or custody for life;
- registered premises
means premises registered with a local authority for the keeping of explosives under the Explosives Act 1875;
- relevant police force
means in the case of an explosive certificate– (a) which will certify that the holder is a fit person to keep explosives, the police force for the police area in which the place of keeping is or is to be situated, (b) which will certify only that the holder is a fit person to acquire explosives, the police force for the police area in which the applicant resides or, in the case of a body corporate, in which the applicant has its registered office, or, if it has no registered office, its principal office, (c) which has been issued, the police force stated in the certificate;
- restricted substance
means– (a) a substance which on classification under the 1983 Regulations has been excluded from Class 1 and designated as not presenting a significant hazard from explosion only because of the proportion it contains of water or other agent with which it is diluted, but which is neither a medicinal product as defined in section 130 of the Medicines Act 1968 nor a substance specified in an order made under section 104 or 105 of the Medicines Act 1968 which is for the time being in force and which directs that specified provisions of that Act shall have effect in relation to that substance as such provisions have effect in relation to medicinal products within the meaning of that Act, or (b) any collection of substances which would if mixed form one or more explosive substances and which has been prepared for that purpose;
- small arms ammunition
means the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations the U.N. no. 0012, 0014 or 0055 and which are intended exclusively for use in small arms;
- smokeless powder
means the explosive substances allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations the U.N. no. 0160 or 0161 and which are intended exclusively for use in small arms;
- store
has the same meaning as in section 108 of the Explosives Act 1875;
- the 1983 Regulations
means the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983;
- the Executive
means the Health and Safety Executive;