Prohibitions in relation to unmarked plastic explosiveU.K.
38.—(1) No person may manufacture any plastic explosive, the finished product of which is unmarked.
(2) No person may be in possession, nor transfer possession, of any unmarked plastic explosive.
(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to a plastic explosive that is in the process of being manufactured.
(4) No person may import any unmarked plastic explosive into the United Kingdom.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, a plastic explosive is marked if, at the time of its manufacture, it, or a sample of the plastic explosive, contains a detection agent of at least the concentration specified in the corresponding entry for that detection agent in column 2 of the Table in Part 2 of Schedule 8, whether that detection agent is introduced during the process of manufacture of the plastic explosive for the purpose of making the plastic explosive detectable or as a result of the normal formulation of that plastic explosive.
(6) In this regulation—
(a)“detection agent” means a substance named in column 1 of the Table in Part 2 of Schedule 8;
(b)“plastic explosive” has the meaning given by Part 1 of Schedule 8; and
(c)“unmarked” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph (5).