Singapore legislation
Regulation 6
of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (School Use — Class Licence) Order 2025
Regulation 6
Students
Subregulation 1
Every individual who is a student of any school mentioned in sub‑paragraph (2) is subject to a class licence authorising the individual to use an explosive precursor —
in a laboratory or a craft or repair workshop of any of those schools; and
in the course of undertaking any permitted activity in sub‑paragraph (3).
Subregulation 2
The schools for the purposes of sub‑paragraph (1) are as follows:
a Government secondary school;
a Government‑aided secondary school;
an independent school;
a Government junior college;
a Government‑aided junior college;
a relevant post‑secondary education school;
a religious school;
a local university;
a foreign system school;
a school at which private education is provided by a registered private education institution.
Subregulation 3
A student may use an explosive precursor in the course of undertaking any of the following permitted activities:
performing a defined experiment in the course of a lesson or training that is part of the course he or she is enrolled in;
performing a defined analysis or research as part of the course he or she is enrolled in;
performing practical training that is part of the course he or she is enrolled in;
performing a defined experiment or performing practical training as part of an assessment of the student in connection with the course he or she is enrolled in.
Subregulation 4
However, the class licence under this paragraph does not extend to authorising any student —
unsupervised access to any explosive precursor;
to use an explosive precursor outside of a laboratory, or a craft or repair workshop, of any school mentioned in sub‑paragraph (2); or
to use an explosive precursor in a laboratory, or a craft or repair workshop, of a school if the school’s operator is not authorised by or under the Act to handle, possess or use the explosive precursor.