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Animal Feed Business
If you make, use or market animal feeding-stuffs you will require to be registered with us. This includes most livestock farms and arable farms that grow, use or sell crops for feed as well as producers, hauliers and stores of feed.
Consumer Credit or Hire
If you offer credit or hire facilities (including credit brokers who arrange credit) you require a Consumer Credit or Hire Licence.
Explosives
If you keep shotgun cartridges or fireworks for sale you will probably require registration under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005. If you keep ammunition for small arms you may keep up to 15 kilogrammes of powder in the form of cartridges (at 1.62 grammes or 25 grains of powder per cartridge you can keep up to 9,260 without registration; at 2.72 grammes or 42 grains of powder per cartridge you can keep 5,500 cartidges without registration. The storage of other products such as motor vehicle air bag inflators or nail gun cartridges also requires registration but up to 5 kilogrammes can be stored without registration. This equates to around 14,000 DX cartridges (UN 0323) of 360mg charge and approximately 50 air bag inflators at 100grammes per inflator. Premises such as shops and similar outlets are subject to inspection by the service even when less than the minimum amounts are kept. A is available for downloading, please submit completed applications in hard copy.
Fee for transfer of licence or registration £34
Apart from four traditional firework celebration days the use of fireworks after 23:00 and before 07:00 is not permitted (Fireworks (Scotland) Regulations 2004). However, it is possible for professional display organisers to obtain a dispensation from the Council to hold displays after 23:00. Applications for Dispensations are decided by Area Committees.
Fireworks Dispensation Application (pdf 155kb )
Petroleum
If you dispense petrol into the tanks of motor vehicles you should contact us for advice on storage.
Storage of Petrol
Petrol is a dangerous substance, its storage and dispensing at a workplace is regulated by the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR) and other health and safety legislation. Enforcement of DSEAR other than at a petrol filling station is either by the Health & Safety Executive or the local Environmental Health service depending upon the type of business. At petrol filling stations DSEAR is enforced by this service.
The provisions of the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 require anyone operating a petrol filling station to have and renew as necessary a licence issued by their local Petroleum Licensing Authority (Aberdeenshire Council). A petrol filling station is any facility on which the tanks of internal combustion engines (cars, lorries, boats or aeroplanes) are filled with petrol by means of electrical or manual dispensing equipment.
Please note that the application form cannot be returned electronically unless signed and scanned.
petrolium licence transfer (pdf 66kb)
petrol licence- application Form (pdf 73kb)
Storage in the Workplace
Storage of petrol for any other purpose in a workplace, including pouring petrol from cans into an internal combustion engine tank, does not require a licence.
Storage of Petrol in a Domestic Environment
The Petroleum Spirit (Motor Vehicle etc) Regulations and the Petroleum Spirit (Plastic Containers) Regulations limit the amount of petrol that can be kept in a domestic garage or within 6 metres of a building.
The limit is a maximum of 2 suitable (ie robust and capable of preventing the escape of petrol) metal containers of a capacity not exceeding 10 litres or 2 plastic containers (of approved design only) each of a maximum of 5 litres capacity.
You may also keep up to 2 x 10 litre capacity containers in your car.
If you wish to keep more or use larger capacity containers you must notify this service and you will have to satisfy storage and distance requirements set out in the Petroleum Spirit (Motor Vehicle etc) Regulations.
If you intend keeping more than 275 litres you will need to apply for a petroleum licence. If you are considering the storage of petrol you can obtain further information from us on 01467 628323.
Under NO circumstances should petrol be stored in the home itself.
Liquid Methane
Under the Petroleum (Liquid Methane) Order 1957 the storage of liquid methane or compressed natural gas requires a licence from the local authority in the same way that petrol does. Liquid methane is also regulated by DSEAR
Poisons
If you store certain drain cleaners containing caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), weed killers such as paraquat or other poisons, then you will probably require a Poisons Licence.
Fees
Registration of Animal Feed Businesses is free of charge. The current licence and registration fees for the other activities are listed here.
