The Act Overview
3.Part 1 defines key words and expressions used in the Act.
4.Part 2 makes provision for licensing the purchase, acquisition, possession, and use of certain fireworks, and regulating the supply of such fireworks to unlicensed persons.
5.Part 3 prohibits people from buying, attempting to buy, giving, or otherwise making available certain fireworks or pyrotechnic articles to a person under the age of 18. It also limits the supply and use of certain fireworks to certain periods of the year.
6.Part 4 enables local authorities to designate firework control zones that limit the use of certain fireworks in relation to the zone while the designation is in effect.
7.Part 5 makes provision prohibiting a person from possessing a pyrotechnic article (other than a category F1 firework) in a public place and prohibiting a person from possessing any pyrotechnic article at a designated venue or event.
8.Part 6 makes provision in relation to exemptions, enforcement for the purposes of the Act, and the aggravation of certain offences.
9.Part 7 contains general provisions about reporting, interpretation, regulations, ancillary provision, Crown application and powers of entry onto Crown land, commencement and the short title.
10.Schedule 1 contains exemptions to certain offences under Parts 2 to 5 of the Act.
11.Schedule 2 makes provision about the powers of a local weights and measures authority(1) (and its officers) to enforce the offences under sections 5 and 22 in its area, and related matters.