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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/31",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to create a new offence of possessing a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence; to apply certain provisions of the Firearms Act 1968 to imitation firearms; and for connected purposes.\n[21st July 1994]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 21.9.1994 see s. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act with the exception of s. 1 and 2 extends to Northern Ireland see s. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/31/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}