{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-act-1987/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-act-1987/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/32",
  "legislation_title": "Crossbows Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-act-1987",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Purchase and hiring.",
  "text": "A person under the age of eighteen who buys or hires a crossbow or a part of a crossbow is guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 2 substituted (E.W.) (1.10.2007) by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), ss. 44, 66(2); S.I. 2007/2180, art. 3(k); and said word also substituted (S.) (1.10.2007) by Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 17), s. 62(1)(2)(b)67(2); S.S.I. 2007/431, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/32/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:21:04.766156+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}