{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2015/10",
  "legislation_title": "Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Requirement for commercial sales of air weapons to be in person",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a person (“the seller”) sells an air weapon by way of trade or business to an individual in Great Britain who is not a registered firearms dealer.\n(2) It is an offence for the seller, for the purposes of the sale, to transfer possession of the weapon to the purchaser otherwise than at a time when both the purchaser and the seller (or a representative of the seller) are present in person.\n(3) The reference in subsection (2) to a representative of the seller is a reference to—\n(a) a person who is employed by the seller in the seller's business as a registered firearms dealer,\n(b) a registered firearms dealer (“A”) who has been authorised by the seller to act on the seller's behalf in relation to the sale, or\n(c) a person who is employed by A in A's business as a registered firearms dealer.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 31.12.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/130, art. 3(a) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2015/10/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:45.483920+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."
}