(a) Any person who desires to erect or carry on a factory for the manufacture or a magazine for the storage of explosives, shall make application for a licence therefor to the chief inspector of explosives, who may issue such a licence subject to the observance of the regulations and after consultation with the local authority, if any, and upon such other conditions as he may think fit to attach to the licence, or refuse to issue such a licence if in his opinion the applicant is not a suitable person to hold the licence in question.
(b) An applicant whose application for a licence is refused by the chief inspector of explosives in terms of
paragraph (a) may appeal to the Minister.
