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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1965/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/44",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1965",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Increased sentences under principal Act",
  "text": "Provision of principal Act\nOld sentence\nNew sentence\nSection 1(2)(a)\n(Acquiring or possessing firearms or ammunition without a firearm certificate or otherwise than as authorised by such a certificate).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment, for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £50 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both; and on conviction on indictment imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine or both.\nSection 1(2)(b)\n(Breach of conditions of a firearm certificate).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £50 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 2(10)\n(False statement for the purpose of procuring the grant, variation or renewal of a firearm certificate').\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 4(13)\n(False statement for the purpose of procuring permit for firearms or ammunition).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 7\n(Manufacturing, dealing in, etc., firearms or ammunition without being registered as a firearms dealer, and false statement for the purpose of procuring an auctioneer's permit).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine or both.\nSection 8(6)\n(False statement for the purpose of procuring registration as a firearms dealer).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 10(5)\n(Dealing in firearms at unregistered places of business; and false statements in connection with registration of places of business of firearms dealers).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 11\n(Contravention of restrictions on disposal, repair and testing of firearms and ammunition; and false firearm certificates and false statements for the purpose of acquiring or procuring the repair or testing of firearms or ammunition).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both; and on conviction on indictment imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine or both.\nSection 12(4)\n(Failure to enter firearms transactions in register, and false entry in register).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 17(1)\n(Manufacturing, dealing in or possession of automatic and other prohibited weapons and prohibited ammunition without authority).\nOn conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, and on summary conviction imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine or both.\nSection 17(4)\n(Breach of conditions of authority for use of automatic and other weapons).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 19\n(Restrictions on acquisition by, and disposal to, young persons of firearms and ammunition).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both.\nSection 21\n(Possession of firearms or ammunition by persons convicted of serious crime and disposal thereof to, and repair thereof for, such persons).\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £20 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine or both.\nSection 24\n(Shortening shot guns and converting imitation into real firearms, and acquiring or possessing shortened shot guns and firearms so converted).\nOn conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding £100 or both, and on summary conviction imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding £50 or both.\nOn summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £200 or both; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine or both.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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