{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-139",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-139.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/Vict/31-32/113",
  "legislation_title": "Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868",
  "path": "section/139",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "Detention of barrels with forged etc. marks brought to proof house.",
  "text": "Where a barrel bearing—\n(a) a mark of a forgery or counterfeit of a stamp or part of a stamp which is or at any time was provided or used by either of the Two Companies or which is or at any time was a convention proof mark; or\n(b) a forged or counterfeit mark or imitation of a mark of any such stamp or part of a stamp,\nis brought to the proof house or any branch proof house of either of the Two Companies, the Company shall detain the barrel and any small arm or part of a small arm of which the barrel forms part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 139 substituted (1.12.1978 in part and 5.6.1980 otherwise) by Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978 (c. 9), s. 9(3), Sch. 3 para. 16; S.I. 1978/1587, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 1980/640, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/31-32/113/section/139",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:01:33.047048+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."
}