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[pyrotechnist]

What type of money would one be expecting to pay for a private manufacturing license?

[Andrew]

Nothing is restricted, there are chemicals covered by the poisons act, which mainly restricts the sale of, and other prescribed chemicals, but nothing we use in pyro is restricted by any law (acept ascenic and barium compounds as they are poisons).
On the getting legal note, the MSER sets out who you need to apply to and how to go about doing it, read this post if your interested in fees etc. The HSE are the only people you need speak to, once your registered to store and licensed to manufacture, then you inform the police on a personal level who and where you are. Part of the licencing involves the police and the fire brigade, as well as HSE officials paying a visit to your "site".

If one is totally open and legit there is nothing to worry about, ignorance is our enemy, don't speak to the local council until you really have to, their general ignorance can cause all sorts of problems. If you do go down the licencing route, do report back on your progress. Until then we are limited to "the manufacture of explosives for the purpose of laboratory analysis, testing, demonstration or experimentation (but not for practical use or sale) where the total quantity of explosives being manufactured at any time does not exceed 100 grams" red text from MSER 2005, which is copyrighted so cite 'copy and pastes'!

In this post, which was in this thread, is a link to the answer. Read this post by clicking on the hyperlink.

The answers are out there on the forum already, a little searching is sometimes necessary. I think BigG put a ballpark figure of an all-in price on a different thread as well.

Edited by Andrew, 17 June 2007 - 01:51 PM.

[pyrotechnist]

Thank you for the information.