Public Advisory On Discharge of Fireworks

The Summary Offences (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act No. 13 of 2025), which pertains to the discharge of fireworks, received the assent of Her Excellency the President on Tuesday (16th December, 2025) and is to come into operation by Proclamation on Friday (19th December, 2025).

In a Public Advisory, the Office of the Attorney General said, “With effect from December 19, 2025, it would be a fixed penalty (or ticketable) offence to discharge fireworks without a permit issued by the Commissioner of Police, except on a public holiday between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM and on December 31 between 11:30 PM and 12:30 AM of the next day. It would also be an offence to discharge fireworks within a half mile radius of a public hospital, a private hospital, an airport, a zoo, a registered animal shelter, a farm where animals are reared, a Forest Reserve or a National Park.”

Details with respect to applications for fireworks permits, the granting of fireworks permits and the issuing of fixed penalty notices (or tickets) for fireworks offences would be contained in the Summary Offences (Fireworks) Regulations, 2025 which would be signed by the Minister of Homeland Security and published in the Gazette on Friday (19th December, 2025).

Please be guided accordingly.