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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1988/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Crossbows (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Sale and letting on hire",
  "text": "A person who sells or lets on hire a crossbow or a part of a crossbow to a person under the age of eighteen is guilty of an offence, unless he believes him to be eighteen years of age or older and has reasonable ground for the belief.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 3 substituted (1.10.2007) by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), ss. 51, 66(2), Sch. 2 para. 12(2)(a); S.I. 2007/2180, art. 4(d)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:44.014930+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."
}