{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2014/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2014/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1239",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Arms And Ammunition\nMade 10th May 2014\nComing into force 20th May 2014\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26A, 26B, 27(2), 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 Sections 26A and 26B were substituted for section 26 as originally enacted by section 37 of the Firearms Amendment Act 1997 (c. 5). Section 27(2) was amended by section 23(5) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45). There are other amendments to the 1968 Act which are not relevant to these Rules."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1239/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:16:30.814480+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."
}