{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-scotland-amendment-rules-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3198",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-scotland-amendment-rules-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ARMS AND AMMUNITION\nMade 12th December 1994\nComing into force 1st January 1995\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 27(2) and (3), 53(a) and 57(4) of the Firearms Act 1968 and of all other powers enabling him that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 27; section 27(2) was amended by the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45), section 23(5); section 53 was extended by section 25(6) of the 1988 Act; section 57(4) contains a definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3198/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."
}