{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1970/10",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives Act (Northern Ireland) 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-act-northern-ireland-1970",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "RUC to have powers of inspectors.",
  "text": "Any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on production of his warrant card shall have and may exercise all or any of the powers of a Government Inspector under sections 55 and 75 of the Explosives Act 1875 and, accordingly, that Act shall have effect as if references in those sections . . . to a Government Inspector included references to any such member.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (1.12.2006) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/425), reg. 27(1), Sch. 6 para. 8(4)(a) (with reg. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 repealed (1.12.2006) by The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/425), reg. 27(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 8(4)(b), Sch. 7 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1875 c. 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/10/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:41.144224+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."
}