{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power to inspect and test fireworks",
  "text": "(1) An officer of a local weights and measures authority may—\n(a) inspect a firework or an item suspected to be a firework on the premises,\n(b) arrange for a firework or an item suspected to be a firework to be tested (and may seize and retain the firework or item under paragraph 6 to do so).\n(2) Inspection and testing under this paragraph may carried out only for the purposes of determining—\n(a) whether or not an item is a firework, or\n(b) the category of a firework (or suspected firework) for the purposes of this Act (see section 2).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}