{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1997-commencement-no-2-amendment-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1997-commencement-no-2-amendment-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1536",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (Commencement) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-act-1997-commencement-no-2-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "For article 4 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 1997 there shall be substituted:\n“4 Sections 1(2) (prohibition of certain small firearms) and 9 (prohibition of expanding ammunition) of the 1997 Act shall not have effect until 1st October 1997 in relation to the possession, sale or transfer of a firearm or ammunition by a person who, immediately before 1st July 1997, has the firearm or ammunition in his possession by virtue of:\n(a) a firearm certificate or a visitor’s firearm permit, or\n(b) a permit issued under section 7 of the 1968 Act.\n4A Section 1(2) of the 1997 Act shall not have effect until 1st October 1997 in relation to the possession, purchase, acquisition, sale or transfer of a firearm by a registered firearms dealer.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1535."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1536/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:48.677847+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."
}