Explosives sales - Licences and permissions

Description

Products covered include:

  • fireworks, including what are sometimes referred to as toy fireworks:
    • caps
    • cracker snaps
    • novelty matches
    • party poppers
    • sparklers
    • throwdown
    • rockets
    • roman candles
    • fountains
  • marine distress pyrotechnics
  • theatrical pyrotechnics
  • shotgun cartridges
  • pyrotechnic based bird scarers, automotive air bag inflators and seat belt tensioners

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Fees and duration
How to apply

Registered Firearms Dealers

You must now apply to Police Scotland to renew an existing licence.

Contact us to obtain a new licence.

To renew, you will need:

Renew your current registration or licence

Forms and guidance

Read our guidance on the new law for the Storage of Explosives, fireworks and other pyrotechnics.

Read our guidance on the new law for the Storage of Explosives

Contact us

Licencing team