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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-and-revocation-rules-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/304",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment and Revocation) Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-and-revocation-rules-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2025/914 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nARMS AND AMMUNITION\nMade 12th March 2026\nComing into force 23rd March 2026\nThe Secretary of State makes these Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26A, 26B(1), (2)(a) and (b) and 53(1)(a) of the Firearms Act 1968.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 27. Sections 26A and 26B were substituted for section 26 as originally enacted by section 37 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (c. 5). Section 53 was amended by section 61(3)(a) of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (c. 17). There are other amendments to the Firearms Act 1968 which are not relevant to these Rules."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/304/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:02.053987+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."
}