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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2016/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/425",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "An application to vary a firearm certificate may continue to be made using an application form which is replaced by virtue of rule 4(b) if it is received by the chief officer of police for the area in which the applicant resides on or before 1st June 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/425/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:02.808452+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."
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