Queensland Consolidated Regulations

EXPLOSIVES REGULATION 2017 - REG 38

38 Fireworks contractor licence

(1) A person is an appropriate person for the issue of a fireworks contractor licence if the chief inspector is reasonably satisfied the person or, if the person is a corporation, an executive officer or employee of the corporation—

(a) is 21 years or more; and

(b) holds a fireworks operator licence or an equivalent authority; and

(c) has held a fireworks operator licence or an equivalent authority for 3 years or more; and

(d) either—

(i) has, within the 3-year period ending on the day the application for the licence is made, been assessed by a registered training organisation as having attained the specific competencies, approved by the chief inspector and published on a Queensland Government website, in organising fireworks displays contained in an industry training package; or

(ii) otherwise demonstrates the skill, knowledge and experience required to organise fireworks displays to a standard considered by the chief inspector to be necessary for the safety and health of persons; and

(e) is, in all the circumstances, an appropriate person for the issue of a fireworks contractor licence.

(2) For subsection (1) (d) (ii) , the chief inspector may require the person to take a written, oral or practical examination.

(3) In this section—

"equivalent authority" means a licence issued under the law of another State authorising the person to use fireworks.