{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-northern-ireland-order-1981-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-northern-ireland-order-1981-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3267",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-northern-ireland-order-1981-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "In the Table in Schedule 2 to the 1981 Order (punishment for offences)—\n(a) after the entry relating to Article 6(1) there shall be inserted the following entry—\n“\nArticle 6(1A)\nPossession of or dealing in other prohibited weapons\n(a) Summary\n3 months or a fine of the statutory maximum or both.\n(b) Indictment\n2 years or a fine or both\n”;\n(b) after the entry relating to Article 31(3) there shall be inserted the following entries—\n“\nArticle 33B(2)\nFailure to surrender expired European firearms pass\nSummary\nA fine of level 3 on the standard scale\nArticle 33C(6)\nFailure to produce European firearms pass or Article 7 authority for variation or cancellation etc.; failure to notify loss or theft of firearms identified in pass or to produce pass for endorsement\nSummary\n3 months or a fine of level 5 on the standard scale or both\n”;\n(c) after the entry relating to Article 48(3) there shall be inserted the following entry—\n“\nArticle 48(4)\nFailure to produce firearms pass issued in another member State\nSummary\nA fine of level 3 on the standard scale\n”;\n(d) after the entry relating to Article 53(2) there shall be inserted the following entry—\n“\nArticle 53A(6)\nFailure to notify Chief Constable of purchase or acquisition of a firearm in another member State\nSummary\n3 months or a fine of level 5 on the standard scale or both\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3267/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:07.049910+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."
}