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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937/section-30",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Power to Secretary of State to make rules",
  "text": "A Secretary of State may make rules—\n(a) prescribing the form of firearm certificates, and the register required to be kept under section twelve of this Act, and other documents ;\n(b) prescribing any other thing which under this Act is to be prescribed;\n(c) regulating the manner in which chief officers of police are to carry out their duties under this Act;\n(d) enabling all or any of the functions of a chief officer of police to be discharged by deputy in the event of the illness or absence, or a vacancy in the office, of the chief officer of police;\n(e) generally for carrying this Act into effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:41.618363+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."
}