{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Application of Firearms Acts to sound moderators etc",
  "text": "(1) The Firearms Act 1968 is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 2 insert—\n“Possession of a sound moderator or flash suppressor\n2A (1) Subject to any exemption under this Act, it is an offence for a person to have in their possession a relevant accessory unless the person holds a firearm certificate or a shot gun certificate.\n(2) “Relevant accessory” means an accessory to a firearm to which section 1 applies which is designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the firearm.”\n(3) In section 57 (interpretation)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) omit paragraph (d);\n(ii) in the words after paragraph (d) omit “, and accessories to,”;\n(b) in subsection (4)—\n(i) after the definition of “registered” insert—\n““relevant accessory” has the meaning given in section 2A;”;\n(ii) in the definition of “shot gun”, omit the words from “and any” to the end.\n(4) In Schedule 6 (prosecution and punishment of offences) after the entry for section 2(2) insert—\n“\nSection 2A\nPossession of relevant accessory without certificate under this Act\nSummary\nA fine of level 3 on the standard scale\n”.\n(5) Schedule 5 amends the exemptions in the Firearms Act 1968 and the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 to the requirement to hold a firearm or shot gun certificate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 29.6.2026 by S.I. 2026/689, reg. 2(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+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."
}