{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2013/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2013/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1945",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules replace the existing two application forms for a firearm certificate and a shotgun certificate with one new single application form that applies for the purposes of both applications. Rule 7(c) introduces a new prescribed application form for an application for the variation of a firearm certificate. Rule 8 removes the old application for a shotgun certificate.\nRule 6 clarifies the requirements that apply in relation to photographs that must accompany an application, in circumstances where an applicant applies simultaneously for a firearm certificate and a shotgun certificate using the new single form.\nRule 9 makes provision to enable chief officers of police to process applications for a firearm certificate or a shotgun certificate which are made using the old forms that are to be replaced, provided that the application concerned is submitted on or before 1st January 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1945/note",
    "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."
}