{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1978/schedule-3/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1978/schedule-3/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/9",
  "legislation_title": "Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 139 of the Act of 1868 there shall be substituted the following section—\n“ Detention of barrels with forged etc. marks brought to proof house.\n139 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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/9/schedule/3/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:10.541725+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."
}