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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/21",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 7 (purposes for which a young person may acquire and have in possession certain firearms and ammunition), in paragraph (3)(b)(i), after “sporting purposes” insert “ or for the purpose of pest control ”.\n(2) In Schedule 1 (firearm certificates—exemptions)—\n(a) in paragraph 9 (air guns and ammunition), in sub-paragraph (3)(b), (person under 18 may not purchase an air gun without a certificate unless the person has attained the age of 17), the words “unless he has attained the age of 17” are repealed;\n(b) in paragraph 11 (shotguns), in sub-paragraph (3), at the end add “ unless the person has attained the age of 16 and is under the supervision of a person who has attained the age of 21 and has held a firearm certificate for a shotgun for at least three years ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:52.150204+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."
}