{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2005/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2005/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3344",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ARMS AND AMMUNITION\nMade 4th December 2005\nComing into force 1st January 2006\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 28(2) and 53 of the Firearms Act 1968:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 27, as extended by section 2(1) of the Firearms Act 1982 (c. 31). There are amendments to section 28 which are not relevant to the subject matter of these Rules."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3344/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:32.757450+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}