Marginal note:Manufacture, use, etc.

6. Except as authorized under this Act and subject to such exemptions as may be provided by regulation, no person shall

• (a) make or manufacture explosives either wholly or in part except in a licensed factory;

• (b) sell any authorized explosive unless that person is the operator of a licensed factory or licensed magazine and is authorized to sell explosives;

• (c) store any explosive in a magazine that is not a licensed magazine;

• (d) have in his possession any explosive; or

• (e) carry on, except in a licensed factory, any of the following processes, namely,

  • (i) dividing into its component parts, or otherwise breaking up or unmaking, any explosive,

  • (ii) making fit for use any damaged explosive, or

  • (iii) remaking, altering or repairing any explosive.

Marginal note:Manufacture of unmarked plastic explosives

• 6.1 (1) No person shall manufacture unmarked plastic explosives unless the explosives are

  • (a) manufactured in limited quantities solely for use in such of the following activities as are authorized, in writing, by the Chief Inspector of Explosives, namely,

    • (i) research, development or testing of new or modified explosives,

    • (ii) training in explosives detection, or in the development or testing of explosives detection equipment, or

    • (iii) forensic science activities; or

  • (b) destined to be incorporated as an integral part of a military device in Canada within three years after the coming into force of this section.

• Marginal note:Transport and possession of unmarked plastic explosives

  (2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), no person shall transport or possess unmarked plastic explosives unless the explosives are

  • (a) transported or possessed in limited quantities solely for use as authorized in the manner referred to in paragraph (1)(a); or

  • (b) destined to be and are incorporated as an integral part of a military device in Canada within three years after the coming into force of this section.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Unmarked plastic explosives manufactured or imported into Canada before the day on which this section comes into force may, in accordance with the regulations, be transported or possessed by

  • (a) a person who performs military or police functions, during the period that begins on the coming into force of this section and ends fifteen years later; or

  • (b) any other person, during the period that begins on the coming into force of this section and ends three years later.

• Marginal note:Importation or exportation of unmarked plastic explosives

  (4) No person shall import or export unmarked plastic explosives unless the explosives are incorporated as an integral part of a military device.