{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1988/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/45",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Schedule applies to the following museums—\nThe Armouries, H.M. Tower of London\nThe National Army Museum\nThe National Museum of Wales\nThe Royal Air Force Museum\nThe Science Museum\nThe Victoria and Albert Museum\nThe Royal Marines Museum\nThe Fleet Air Arm Museum\nThe Royal Navy Museum\nThe Royal Navy Submarine Museum\nThe British Museum\nThe Imperial War Museum\nThe National Maritime Museum\nThe National Museums of Scotland\nThe National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside\nThe Wallace Collection\nAny other museum or similar institution in Great Britain which has as its purpose, or one of its purposes, the preservation for the public benefit of a collection of historical, artistic or scientific interest which includes or is to include firearms and which is maintained wholly or mainly out of money provided by Parliament or by a local authority.\n(2) This Schedule also applies to any museum or similar institution in Great Britain which is of a description specified in an order made for the purposes of this sub-paragraph by the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers (by virtue of provision made under section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998) and whose collection includes or is to include firearms.\n(3) An order under sub-paragraph (2) above may specify any description of museum or similar institution which appears to the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers to have as its purpose, or one of its purposes, the preservation for the public benefit of a collection of historical, artistic or scientific interest.\n(4) The power to make an order under sub-paragraph (2) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 5 renumbered as sub-para. (1) (1.7.1997) by 1997 c. 5, s. 47(a); S.I. 1997/1535, art. 3(b), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 5(2)(3)(4) inserted (1.7.1997) by 1997 c. 5, s. 47(b); S.I. 1997/1535, art. 3(b), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 5(2) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1(1), 6(1), Sch. 5 para. 7(3)(f)(i) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 5(3) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1(1), 6(1), Sch. 5 para. 7(3)(f)(ii) (with art. 7)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/45/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:43.518640+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."
}