{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2013/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2013/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1945",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Arms And Ammunition\nMade 23rd July 2013\nComing into force 1st December 2013\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26A(1), 26B(1) and 53 of the Firearms Act 1968, makes the following Rules:",
  "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 Sections 26A and 26B were substituted for section 26 as originally enacted by section 37 of the Firearms Amendment Act 1997 (c.5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1945/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:41.419685+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."
}