viiFireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill: Digital Engagement Summary of Online Forum Submissions to support the Criminal Justice Committee’s scrutiny of the Bill (Participation and Communities Team) (March 2022), page 9: https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/criminal-justice-committee/fireworks-bill-engagement-summary.pdf
Responding to concerns expressed by witnesses from the fireworks retail industry that experience from Northern Ireland shows a licensing system to be ineffective, the Minister and her officials said that the proposal in the Bill was not comparable with the system in Northern Ireland.