{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-109",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-109.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/17",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875",
  "path": "section/109",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "109",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "In this Act with respect to Scotland—\n(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . .\n(3) . . .\n(4) . . .\n(5) . . .\n(6) . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . .\n(9) . . .\n(10) The expression “the court of summary jurisdiction” means the sheriff principal of the sheriffdom or any one of his sheriffs:\n(11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 109(1) repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 109(2)-(6)(8)(9) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.VII."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 109(7) repealed by Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 77), Sch. 5 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 109(11) repealed (E.W.S.) (26.4.2005 with application outside E.W.S. as mentioned in reg. 3 of the repealing S.I.) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1082), Sch. 5 para. 1(16), Sch. 6 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/17/section/109",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:48.433027+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}