{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-law-enforcement-and-security-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-61",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111178102",
  "legislation_title": "The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-law-enforcement-and-security-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 8A (controls on defectively deactivated weapons), in each of subsections (2) and (3), for “the EU” in each place those words occur substitute “the United Kingdom”.\n(3) In section 17 (visitors’ permits)—\n(a) in subsection (1A)—\n(i) in paragraph (b), omit “to a place outside the member States without first being taken to another member State”;\n(ii) at the end of paragraph (b) insert “or”;\n(iii) omit paragraph (d) and the “or” immediately preceding that paragraph;\n(b) omit subsection (3A).\n(4) In section 18 (firearms acquired for export)—\n(a) omit subsection (1A);\n(b) in subsection (4) omit “and, in a case where the transaction is one for the purposes of which a document such as is mentioned in subsection (1A)(a) above is required to be produced, particulars of the agreement contained in that document”;\n(c) omit subsection (6).\n(5) Omit section 18A (purchase or acquisition of firearms in other member States).\n(6) In section 18B (permitted electronic means), in subsection (1)—\n(a) in the opening words omit “or 18A”;\n(b) in paragraph (a), for “the section concerned” substitute “that section”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 8A was inserted by section 128 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Relevant amendments made by S.I. 1992/2823."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 17(1A) was inserted by S.I. 1992/2823."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 17(3A) was inserted by S.I. 1992/2823 and amended by S.I. 2011/2175."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Relevant amendments made by S.I. 1992/2823."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 18(1A) was inserted by S.I. 1992/2823."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Section 18(4) was amended by S.I.1992/2823."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Section 18(6) was inserted by S.I. 1992/2823."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Section 18A was inserted by S.I. 1992/2823 and amended by S.I. 2011/713."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "Section 18B was inserted by S.I. 2011/713 and amended by paragraphs 6 and 7(b) of Schedule 14 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and by S.I. 2013/602."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111178102/regulation/61",
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  },
  "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."
}