{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-offensive-weapons-order-1988/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-offensive-weapons-order-1988/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2019",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-offensive-weapons-order-1988",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraphs 3, 4 , and 5A to 5E, a person shall be taken to have shown a matter specified in those paragraphs if—\n(a) sufficient evidence of that matter is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and\n(b) the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. paras. 3-6 inserted (E.W.N.I.) (6.4.2008) by The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons)(Amendment) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/973), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 6 substituted (1.8.2008) by The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2039), arts. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 6 substituted (14.7.2021 for E.W.) by Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (c. 17), s. 47(9) (with s. 47(10)); S.I. 2021/819, reg. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 6 substituted (E.W.) (1.8.2025) by The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment, Surrender and Compensation) (England and Wales) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/681), arts. 1(2)(b), 2(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2019/17",
      "affecting_title": "Offensive Weapons Act 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2019/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:39.146838+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."
}