{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1936/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1936/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/39",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms (Amendment) Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1936",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Time for commencing summary proceedings",
  "text": "Notwithstanding any provision in any Act prescribing the period within which summary proceedings may be instituted, summary proceedings for an offence under the principal Act or this Act may be instituted at any time within the period of four years after the commission of the offence :\nProvided that no such proceedings shall be instituted in England after the expiration of the period of six months after the commission of the offence, unless they are instituted by, or by the direction of, the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/39/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:02.798063+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."
}