{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/17",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Restriction on sale of gunpowder in highways, &c.",
  "text": "Gunpowder shall not be hawked, sold, or exposed for sale upon any highway, street, public thoroughfare, orroad or in any public place.\nIf any gunpowder is hawked, sold, or exposed for sale in contravention of this section—\n(1) The person hawking, selling, or exposing for sale the same, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2 ; and\n(2) All or any part of the gunpowder which is so hawked or exposed for sale, or is found in the possession of any person convicted under this section, may be forfeited.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “road or in any”substituted (S.) for words “highway, street, public thoroughfare, or” by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/22",
      "affecting_title": "Fireworks Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/17/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T18:27:11.001528+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."
  }
}