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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/27",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the Firearms Acts 1937 and 1965, the Air Guns and Shot Guns, etc. , Act 1962, Part V of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 and certain enactments amending the Firearms Act 1937.\n[30th May 1968]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by S.I. 1972/971, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended with modifications by Firearms Act 1982 (c. 31, SIF 51:1), s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended by Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45, SIF 51:1), ss. 8, 25(4)Act amended (1.7.1997) by 1997 c. 5, s. 48(a); S.I. 1997/1535, art. 3, Sch. Pt. IAct amended (prosp.) by 1997 c. 5, ss. 12(2), 53(3) (which amending s. 12(2) was repealed (17.12.1997) by 1997 c. 64, s. 2(7), Sch.; S.I. 1997/3114, art. 3, Sch. Pt. I)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Definitions of \"ammunition\" and \"firearm\" in this Act applied (E.W.) (25.10.1991) by Deer Act 1991 (c. 54, SIF 4:3), ss.16, 18(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), S. 101(1), Sch. 12 para.23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10. 1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (1.7.1997) by 1997 c. 5, s. 50(2)(3); S.I. 1997/1535, art. 3, Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.8.1968, see s. 60(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:25.041392+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."
}