{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1988/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1988/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/45",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1988",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Restriction on sale of ammunition for smooth-bore guns.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to ammunition to which section 1 of the principal Act does not apply and which is capable of being used in a shot gun or in a smooth-bore gun to which that section applies.\n(2) It is an offence for a person to sell any such ammunition to another person in the United Kingdom who is neither a registered firearms dealer nor a person who sells such ammunition by way of trade or business unless that other person—\n(a) produces a certificate authorising him to possess a gun of a kind mentioned in subsection (1) above; or\n(b) shows that he is by virtue of that Act or this Act entitled to have possession of such a gun without holding a certificate; or\n(c) produces a certificate authorising another person to possess such a gun, together with that person’s written authority to purchase the ammunition on his behalf.\n(3) An offence under this section shall be punishable on summary conviction with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/45/section/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."
}