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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knife-dealers-exceptions-order-2009/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knife-dealers-exceptions-order-2009/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Knife Dealers (Exceptions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knife-dealers-exceptions-order-2009",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exceptions for certain businesses",
  "text": "(1) Where a person (A) is teaching another person (B) the sport of fencing, the hiring, offering or exposing for hire, lending or giving of a fencing sword by A to B is not to be taken to be a business for the purposes of section 27A(4) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 but only where A is qualified to teach B in the sport.\n(2) In this Article “fencing sword” means a sword used in the sport of fencing and which may be classified as a foil, epée or sabre.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/218/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:01:05.354275+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."
}