{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-age-of-purchase-c-act-1976/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-age-of-purchase-c-act-1976/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/26",
  "legislation_title": "Explosives (Age of Purchase &c.) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-age-of-purchase-c-act-1976",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Increase of age for purchase of fireworks etc and of certain penalties relating to fireworks etc.",
  "text": "(1) In section 31 of the Explosives Act 1875 (which, as extended by section 39 of that Act, prohibits the sale to children of explosives, including fireworks, and provides that a person who makes a sale in contravention of the said section 31 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20) for the words “any child apparently under the age of thirteen” there shall be substituted the words “any person under the age of sixteen” and for the word “£20” there shall be substituted the word “£200”.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(1) repealed in part by Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c. 43, SIF 109:1), ss. 41(2), 47(1)(2), 48, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed by Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c. 43, SIF 109:1), ss. 41(2), 47(1)(2), 48, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1875 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1(1)(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/26/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:16.464348+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."
}