{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2022/9",
  "legislation_title": "Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Notice of testing of item",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where—\n(a) a firework purchased (or acquired under direction or by arrangement) by an officer of a local weights and measures authority under paragraph 2 is submitted to a test and as a result proceedings are brought for an offence under section 5 or 22, or\n(b) a firework or item seized by an officer of a local weights and measures authority under paragraph 6 is submitted to a test.\n(2) The local weights and measures must inform the relevant person of the results of the test.\n(3) The local weights and measures authority must allow a relevant person to have the firework or item tested if it is reasonably practicable to do so.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2), “relevant person” means the person from whom the firework or item was purchased or seized.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (3), “relevant person” means—\n(a) in a case within sub-paragraph (1)(a), a person who is a party to the proceedings, or\n(b) in any other case, a person referred to in sub-paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/9/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:20.213210+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."
}