25Meaning of explosives location and large explosives location

25 Meaning of explosives location and large explosives location

(1)  A place is an explosives location if explosives are, or are likely to be, handled at the place in a greater than prescribed quantity.

(2)  However, a major hazard facility is not an explosives location.

(3)  An explosives location is a large explosives location if explosives are, or are likely to be, handled at the location in a greater than prescribed quantity.

(4)  To avoid doubt, if and when an explosives location becomes a large explosives location –

(a) it does not cease thereby to be an explosives location; and

(b) no provision of this Act applying to an explosives location ceases thereby to apply to it; and

(c) the provisions of this Act that apply to it as a large explosives location are additional to those that apply to it as an explosives location.

(5)  In this section –

major hazard facility has the same meaning as in the regulations made under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 .