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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-act-1988-offensive-weapons-amendment-england-and-wales-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348284058",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-act-1988-offensive-weapons-amendment-england-and-wales-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Schedule to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988 (descriptions of weapons to which section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 1B(3)(b)(ii) (secondary straight cutting edge)—\n(a) for “5%” substitute “105%”;\n(b) omit “or shorter”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2019, amended by S.I. 2025/681. There are other amendments but they are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:14.019651+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."
}