{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-sentencing-transitory-provisions-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1324",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Sentencing) (Transitory Provisions) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-sentencing-transitory-provisions-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 51A of the Firearms Act 1968 provides for minimum sentences to be imposed for certain offences under section 5 of that Act (“a qualifying offence”). Section 51A provides that an offender aged 18 or over when convicted of a qualifying offence for which a sentence of imprisonment is imposed will receive a minimum term of five years.\nThis Order modifies section 51A pending the repeal of the sentence of detention in a young offender institution for offenders aged 18 to 20 at the time of conviction. The modifications in this Order apply the five-year minimum term for a qualifying offence to offenders aged 21 or over sentenced to imprisonment and to 18 to 20 year olds sentenced to detention in a young offender institution.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this Order as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1324/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:54:21.084508+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."
}