{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/27",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Special powers of arrest.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50 repealed: (E.W.) by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 121(1), Sch. 7 Pt. 1; and (S.) (25.1.2018) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 1), s. 117(2), sch. 2 para. 6; S.S.I. 2017/345, art. 3, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/5",
      "affecting_title": "Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:25.041392+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}