{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-rules-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-rules-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1941",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) “the principal Act” means the Firearms Act 1968;\n(b) “the 1997 Act” means the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997;\n(c) references to firearms include references to imitation firearms to which the Firearms Act 1982 applies;\n(d) “muzzle-loading pistol”, “approved rifle club” and “approved muzzle-loading pistol club” have the same meaning as in section 15 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988;\n(e) “target shooting club” means any club at which shooting at targets is conducted with firearms to which section 1 of the principal Act applies, whether or not an approved rifle or muzzle-loading pistol club;\n(f) any reference to a form includes a reference to any form to the like effect; and\n(g) any reference to a Schedule, except in rule 10(5) below, is a reference to a Schedule to these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1982 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 15 was substituted by section 45 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1941/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:43.371035+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."
  }
}