{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015-consequential-provisions-order-2017/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015-consequential-provisions-order-2017/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/452",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015-consequential-provisions-order-2017",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Offence of taking in pawn air weapons",
  "text": "(1) The Firearms Act 1968 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 3 (business and other transactions with firearms and ammunition), after subsection (6) insert—\n“(7) It is an offence for a pawnbroker to take in pawn an air weapon within the meaning of section 1 of the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015.\n(8) Subsection (7) applies to Scotland only.”.\n(3) In the table in Part 1 of Schedule 6 (prosecution and punishment of offences), after the entry for section 3(6) insert—\n“\nSection 3(7)\nPawnbroker taking air weapon in pawn (Scotland only).\nSummary\n3 months or a fine of level 3 on the standard scale; or both.\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c.27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 3 which are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2015 asp 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "There are amendments to the table in Part 1 of Schedule 6 which are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/452/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:13.493708+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}