{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-28.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/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "False Declaration a Misdemeanor.",
  "text": "Any Person who falsely or corruptly makes and subscribes such Declaration, knowing the same to be untrue in any material Particular, or knowingly and wilfully acts contrary thereto, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 substituted (1.12.1978) by Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978 (c. 9), s. 9(3), Sch. 3 para. 4; S.I. 1978/1587, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/31-32/113/section/28",
    "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."
}