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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/17",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Law with respect to manufacturing, keeping, selling, carrying, and importing Gunpowder, Nitro–glycerine, and other Explosive Substances.\n[14th June 1875]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59), Sch. para. 2; excluded by Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50), s. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Whole Act (except ss. 30–32, 80 and 116–121) extended by S.I. 1988/1222, regs. 3, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1990/1380, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act except ss. 30 to 32, 80 and 116 to 121 saved by virtue of Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1991 (c. iv), Sch. Pt. VII, s. 62"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act except ss.30 to 32, 80 and 116 to 121 saved by virtue of Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Highland Regional Council (Harbours) Order Confirmation Act 1991 (c. xii), s. 61(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act restricted (27.2.1997) by 1997 c. 7, s. 4(1), Sch. para. 1 (with s. 11(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.1.1876."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/17/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:48.433027+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."
}