{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-revocation-consequential-amendment-and-saving-provision-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-revocation-consequential-amendment-and-saving-provision-regulations-2026/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/118",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Revocation, Consequential Amendment and Saving Provision) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-revocation-consequential-amendment-and-saving-provision-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Firearms Regulations 2019",
  "text": "(1) The 2019 Regulations are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement, extent and interpretation)—\n(a) omit paragraph (2);\n(b) for the definition of “appropriate national authority” substitute ““appropriate national authority” means the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland;”; and\n(c) for the definition of “firearm” substitute ““firearm”, for the purposes of regulations 1 to 4, has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (interpretation);”.\n(3) In regulation 2 (notification of transfers of deactivated firearms), for paragraph (4) substitute—\n“(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.”.\n(4) In regulation 3 (notification of deactivated firearms), for paragraph (6) substitute—\n“(6) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/118/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:21.406497+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."
}