{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-act-2003/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-act-2003/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/22",
  "legislation_title": "Fireworks Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-act-2003",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibition of supply etc. in certain circumstances",
  "text": "(1) Fireworks regulations may include provision prohibiting persons from supplying, purchasing, possessing or using fireworks, or fireworks of a description specified in the regulations, during hours of the day so specified.\n(2) Fireworks regulations may include provision prohibiting persons from supplying, exposing for supply, purchasing, possessing or using fireworks, or fireworks of a description specified in the regulations—\n(a) in places or places of a description, or\n(b) in circumstances,\nspecified in the regulations.\n(3) If fireworks regulations impose any prohibition by virtue of this section, they may contain—\n(a) exceptions from the prohibition, or\n(b) provision for the granting of dispensations from the prohibition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4: functions made exercisable concurrently (29.7.2004) by Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2030), art. 1(1), Sch. (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 15.7.2004 by S.I. 2004/1831, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/22/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:10.668533+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."
}