{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-firearms-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-37",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110491327",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-firearms-northern-ireland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/37",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Business and other transactions with firearms and ammunition",
  "text": "(1) A person who sells or transfers to any other person in the United Kingdom, other than the holder of a firearms dealer’s certificate, any firearm or ammunition, unless that other person—\n(a) produces a firearm certificate authorising him to purchase or acquire it; or\n(b) shows that he is by virtue of this Order entitled to purchase or acquire it without holding a certificate,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who undertakes the repair, test or proof of a firearm or ammunition for any other person in the United Kingdom, other than the holder of a firearms dealer’s certificate, unless that other person—\n(a) produces or causes to be produced a firearm certificate authorising him to have possession of the firearm or ammunition; or\n(b) shows that he is by virtue of this Order entitled to have possession of it without holding a certificate,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) have effect subject to any exemption under this Order.\n(4) A person who, with a view to purchasing or acquiring, or procuring the repair, test or proof of, any firearm or ammunition—\n(a) produces a false certificate or other document or a certificate or other document in which any false entry has been made;\n(b) personates a person to whom a certificate or other document has been granted; or\n(c) knowingly or recklessly makes a statement false in any material particular,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(5) A pawnbroker who takes in pawn from any person any firearm or ammunition shall be guilty of an offence.\n(6) It is not an offence under paragraph (1) for a person who is a carrier or warehouseman or an employee of a carrier or warehouseman to deliver any firearm or ammunition in the ordinary course of his business or employment as such.\n(7) It is not an offence under paragraph (1) for a person to part with the possession of any firearm or ammunition, otherwise than in pursuance of a contract of sale or hire or by way of gift or loan, to a person who shows that he is by virtue of this Order entitled to have possession of the firearm or ammunition without holding a firearm certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110491327/article/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:07.314969+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."
}