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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnic-articles-scotland-act-2022/section-36.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": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Prohibition of pyrotechnic articles at designated venues or events",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person, without reasonable excuse, to possess a pyrotechnic article to which this section applies while the person is in a designated venue or while at a designated event.\n(2) A person convicted of an offence under subsection (1) is liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).\n(3) In this section, “designated venue” or “designated event” means a venue or, as the case may be, event designated by the Scottish Ministers under section 37.\n(4) This section is subject to section 38 and schedule 1 (exemptions).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 36 in force at 6.6.2023 by S.S.I. 2023/99, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/9/section/36",
    "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."
}