New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

EXPLOSIVES REGULATION 2005 - REG 36

36 Additional requirements for licences relating to security sensitive dangerous substances

(1) Before any licence relating to the handling of security sensitive dangerous substances is granted, the regulatory authority must be satisfied that the applicant has a legitimate reason for obtaining the licence.

Note: This provision applies to all licences that authorise a person to handle security sensitive dangerous substances, not merely the licence to use security sensitive dangerous substances as referred to in clause 16 (k).

(2) A "legitimate reason" for obtaining a licence that authorises a person to handle security sensitive dangerous substances includes obtaining the licence for the purpose of:

(a) use in commercial production processes, mining, quarrying. agricultural blasting, construction, civil engineering, seismic work or tunnelling, or

(b) the commercial manufacture of fertiliser or explosives, or

(c) education, research or analysis, or

(d) commercial agricultural use by primary producers, or

(e) transporting or supplying security sensitive dangerous substances for any purpose listed above,

but does not include obtaining the licence for the purpose of:

(f) household domestic use, or

(g) use as a fertiliser on outdoor recreation facilities (such as parks, golf courses, sports fields and the like).