Aerial fireworks trajectory:

• above-ground power lines
• above-ground communications cables
• streetlamp poles or flagpoles
• gantries, cranes or similar high structures
• tall trees

Firing location(s):

• spectator areas

‘Protected works’ outside the immediate venue for the display:

• residential building
• cinema, theatre, concert hall or other place of public entertainment
• public building, public park or other public facility
• building or open area in which people are accustomed to assemble
• factory, workshop, office, warehouse, shop or other building, located outside an explosives location or a large explosives location, where persons are employed

Major infrastructure:

• roads
• bridges
• infrastructure for gas, water, waste disposal, electricity and communications services
• railways and railway infrastructure
• wharves, jetties and other permanent berthing facilities
• aerodromes

Tent, marquee or similar shelter

Motor vehicle

Designated spectator area:

• landing of aerial fireworks or associated debris

Firing location(s):

• any place where explosives, other than the fireworks themselves are stored
• any place where flammable or combustible materials are stored

Unless approval from the ‘owner’ or ‘responsible authority’ has been obtained:

• school or other educational institution
• hospital or other medical institution
• retirement home, aged respite centre or other aged-care facility
• church or other place of public worship

Suburbs with concentration of private horse ownership and previous community complaints:

• Acton Park
• Allen’s Rivulet
• Carlton
• Devon Hills
• Dodges Ferry
• Orielton
• Roches Beach
• Sandford

Significant risk to livestock:

• commercial boarding kennel
• commercial horse business

Significant risk to native animals:

• sanctuary or conservation area, such as Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Tasmania Zoo, and Trowunna Wildlife Park

Permit holder must be onsite throughout the display

Permit holder must ensure that the following persons are given at least 7 clear days' notice of the display:

• the Tasmania Fire Service
• the Police Service
• the general manager of the municipal area in which the proposed site is located
• the owner or occupier of each property adjoining the proposed site
• the owner or occupier of each property, within a one-kilometre radius of the proposed site, used for commercial livestock operations
• if the proposed site is within one kilometre of any reserved land, within the meaning of the Nature Conservation Act 2002, the Director of National Parks and Wildlife
• if the proposed site is within one kilometre of a permanent timber production zone land, within the meaning of the Forest Management Act 2013, Forestry Tasmania
• if  the proposed site is on the seashore and the display will involve any aerial display of fireworks, the Marine and Safety Authority established under the Marine and Safety Authority Act 1997 (MAST).

Notices may be given individually or by ‘public notice’ in a daily newspaper published and circulating generally in the region in which the display is to be held.

A fireworks display must not:

• last longer than 30 minutes (inclusive of breaks)
• commence before 6pm or continue after 10pm

A display must not commence or, if it has commenced, proceed:

• in contravention of a total fire ban declaration
• in high winds (greater than 39 km/h) or a lightning storm or other unsafe weather conditions

Fire fighting equipment must be available for the duration of the fireworks display to protect against the fire-risk at the display site.

As a minimum requirement, the following fire fighting equipment must be provided:

• a shovel and/or rake; plus
• a water supply; or a minimum of 2 x 8 litre buckets of water

Before being taken on site, fireworks must be securely held away from any ignition source or from other dangerous substances with which they could explosively interreact.

Once any fireworks have been taken on site, they must be kept in closed containers, at least 25 metres away from the firing area, until they need to   be positioned and made ready for firing and cannot be left unattended at any time.

All fireworks must be checked for damage or defects before the display and any found to be damaged or defective (or suspected of being so) must be put aside and not used.

Fireworks that do not have the manufacturer's instructions printed on their casing must not be fired.

Misfires must be destroyed, or safely removed from the site in an approved portable magazine, preferably by soaking with water for at least 10 hours and then burying, but under no circumstances may misfires be burned.

Immediately after the display, all necessary follow-up measures must be taken:

• checking the site for ignited or smouldering materials or misfires or overlooked fireworks
• securing and removing unused fireworks
• securing and removing mortars and other shot-firing equipment
• extinguishing pyres, bonfires and braziers
• generally clearing the site of rubbish, debris and materials

Fireworks consisting of or including aerial fireworks must be so placed and fired that their trajectory is at least 10 metres distant from any:

• above-ground power lines
• above-ground communications cables
• streetlamp poles or flagpoles
• gantries, cranes or similar high structures
• tall trees

Fireworks must not be fired within 200 metres of any place where other explosives or flammable or combustible materials are stored.

Fireworks must not be fired within 50 metres of any:

• protected works (outside the immediate venue for the display)
• major infrastructure
• tent, marquee or similar shelter
• motor vehicle

Fireworks must not be fired within 500 metres of protected works of the following kind without the approval of the owner of, or an authority responsible for, those protected works:

• a school or other educational institution
• a hospital or other medical institution
• a retirement home, aged respite centre or other aged-care facility
• a church or other place of public worship

Permit holder is responsible for crowd control and ensuring that spectators do not gain access to any fireworks or firing areas.

Aerial fireworks or shells must not be fired so as to cross over or burst over any designated spectator or parking area.

Any area set apart for the landing of aerial fireworks or associated debris (or any area in which such fireworks or debris may reasonably be expected to land) must be free of flammable or combustible material and at least 100 metres from any designated spectator area.

Fireworks must not be fired within 10 metres of any designated spectator area.