The following section is substituted for section 80 of the Explosives Act 1875:
(1) Any person who in any place -
(a) ignites a firework or causes it to be ignited, or
(b) throws, directs or propels an ignited firework at or towards a person or property,
is guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person -
(a) who possesses a firework with intent to sell or otherwise to supply it to another, and
(b) who does not hold a licence under this Act to import it,
is guilty of an offence.
(3) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (2) it is not necessary for the prosecution to negative by evidence the existence of a licence to import the firework concerned, and accordingly the onus of proving the existence of any such licence is on the defendant.
(4) A member of the Garda Síochána who, with reasonable cause, suspects that a person possesses a firework in contravention of subsection (2) may -
(a) request that the person give his or her name and address and that the information given by t
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