{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-32/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-32/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/32/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 21 (possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of crime) is amended as follows.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In subsection (3)(b), for “probation order” there is substituted “ community order ”.\n(5) After subsection (3) there is inserted—\n“((3ZA)) In subsection (3)(b) above, “community order” means—\n(a) a community order within the meaning of Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 made in England and Wales, or\n(b) a probation order made in Scotland.”\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 32 para. 12(2) (3) omitted (3.12.2012) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 10 para. 39; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 32 para. 12(6) omitted (3.12.2012) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 10 para. 39; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 32 para. 12 wholly in force at 4.4.2005; Sch. 32 para. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 336(3); Sch. 32 para. 12(1)-(3)(6) in force for certain purposes at 26.1.2004 by S.I. 2003/3282, art. 2, Sch.; Sch. 32 para. 12 in force in so far as not already in force at 4.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 42(7) (subject to art. 2(2), Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/schedule/32/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:27.767865+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."
}