What are the laws in Taiwan regarding the purchase, storage and usage of potentially hazardous materials and equipment?
What materials need permits, and who does one approach to get them?
Does availability for sale to the general public (in physical stores, or online) mean that the material is freely usable without a license? Are there limitations to quantities, suitable premises (e.g. industrial only, not residential) and so on?
The intent is for commercial and/or R&D use.
For completeness, and for the benefit of other people who may come across this thread, let’s cover a broad spectrum:
- Flammable materials, e.g. gas canisters, fuels, solvents
- Oxidizing materials, e.g. bleach, percarbonates, nitrates and perchlorates
- Explosive materials and their precursors, e.g. oxy-acetylene, nitrates
- Toxic materials, e.g. heavy metals
- Carcinogenic materials, e.g. certain solvents and chemicals
- Radioactive materials, or ionizing radiation sources, e.g. tritium lights, intense UV sources
- Lasers (not eye safe)
- High voltage equipment
- Sources of intense, pulsed EM fields
- Radio, and microwave sources intense enough to potentially jam nearby consumer electronics
What laws in Taiwan govern when a device may need a permit or a license? For example an EM pulse generator, a coilgun or a home made particle accelerator which may produce radiation.
Where is the line drawn, between a device for research, devices for commercial sale and what could be construed as a device for causing mischief, a weapon or a bomb?