{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-scotland-amendment-rules-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-scotland-amendment-rules-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2821",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-scotland-amendment-rules-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ARMS AND AMMUNITION\nMade 11th November 1992\nComing into force 16th November 1992\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 27(2) and (3), 28(2), 53, 55(1) and 57(4) of the Firearms Act 1968, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 27, as extended by section 2(1) of the Firearms Act 1982 (c. 31). Section 27(2) was amended by section 23(5) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45), and sections 53 and 55 were extended by section 25(6) of the 1988 Act. Section 57(4) contains a definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2821/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}