{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-period-of-certificate-order-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-period-of-certificate-order-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2614",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Period of Certificate) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-period-of-certificate-order-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides that the period for which a firearm or shot gun certificate is to continue in force under section 26(3) of the Firearms Act 1968 (unless previously revoked or cancelled) is to be five years instead of three years. By virtue of section 26(3B) of the 1968 Act, the Order applies only to certificates granted or renewed after 1st January 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2614/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:24:57.498911+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."
}