{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875/section-80.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/17",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-1875",
  "path": "section/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Penalty for throwing fireworks in thoroughfare.",
  "text": "If any person throw, cast, or fire any fireworks in or into any highway, street, thoroughfare,road or public place, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word “road”substituted (S.) for words “highway, street thoroughfare,” by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c. 43, SIF 109:1), ss. 41(2), 47(1)(2), 48, Sch. 4 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 80 explained as to meaning of public place (S.) by Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 86), s. 27(6)"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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/80",
    "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."
  }
}