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 —

(a)

in a laboratory or a craft or repair workshop of any of those schools; and

(b)

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)

a Government secondary school;

(b)

a Government‑aided secondary school;

(c)

an independent school;

(d)

a Government junior college;

(e)

a Government‑aided junior college;

(f)

a relevant post‑secondary education school;

(g)

a religious school;

(h)

a local university;

(i)

a foreign system school;

(j)

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:

(a)

performing a defined experiment in the course of a lesson or training that is part of the course he or she is enrolled in;

(b)

performing a defined analysis or research as part of the course he or she is enrolled in;

(c)

performing practical training that is part of the course he or she is enrolled in;

(d)

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 —

(a)

unsupervised access to any explosive precursor;

(b)

to use an explosive precursor outside of a laboratory, or a craft or repair workshop, of any school mentioned in sub‑paragraph (2); or

(c)

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.