Dangerous Fireworks (Exemption) Notification 2018

No. S 147

Dangerous Fireworks Act

(CHAPTER 72)

Dangerous Fireworks (Exemption)
Notification 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 9 of the Dangerous Fireworks Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification is the Dangerous Fireworks (Exemption) Notification 2018 and comes into operation on 1 April 2018.

Definitions

2. In this Notification, unless the context otherwise requires —

“authorised officer” means an officer of the Police Licensing and Regulatory Department of the Singapore Police Force holding any of the following designations:

(a)	Director;
(b)	Deputy Director;
(c)	Assistant Director, Arms and Explosives Division;
(d)	Officer‑in‑Charge Licensing, Arms and Explosives Division;
(e)	Assistant Officer‑in‑Charge Licensing, Arms and Explosives Division;

“exempt company” means —

(a)	Explomo Technical Services Pte Ltd;
(b)	Glorious (S) Pte Ltd;
(c)	Intermay Consultech Pte Ltd;
(d)	Knights Synergy (S) Pte Ltd;
(e)	Effects Technologies Pte Ltd; or
(f)	SpectaWorks Pte Ltd;

“exempt organiser” means an organiser of a fireworks display who is exempt, under paragraph 4, from section 3 of the Act;

“special guest”, in relation to a fireworks display, means any individual who is invited by an organiser of the fireworks display to do any of the following in connection with the fireworks display:

(a)	keep or have in the individual’s possession, or under the individual’s control, any dangerous fireworks;
(b)	discharge or let off those dangerous fireworks.

Exemption of executor of fireworks display

3. Sections 3 and 4 of the Act do not apply to an exempt company in relation to dangerous fireworks used or to be used in a fireworks display that is, or is to be, executed by the exempt company for an exempt organiser, in accordance with the conditions specified in Part 1 of the Schedule.

Exemption of organiser

4. Section 3 of the Act does not apply to an organiser of a fireworks display that is, or is to be, executed by an exempt company for the organiser, if the organiser complies with the conditions specified in Part 2 of the Schedule.

Exemption of special guest

5. Section 3 of the Act does not apply to a special guest at a fireworks display in relation to dangerous fireworks used or to be used in a fireworks display that is, or is to be, executed by an exempt company for an exempt organiser.

Exemption of Health Sciences Authority officer

6. Section 3 of the Act does not apply to a forensic scientist or laboratory officer from the Forensic Chemistry & Physics Laboratory, Forensic Science Division in the Applied Sciences Group of the Health Sciences Authority established by the Health Sciences Authority Act (Cap. 122C), in relation to dangerous fireworks that are to be tested by the forensic scientist or laboratory officer at the request of a police officer.

Made on 26 March 2018.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA (PS) 8/2/01; AG/LEGIS/SL/72/2015/1 Vol. 2]

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