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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knife-dealers-licence-miscellaneous-scotland-order-2010/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Knife Dealer’s Licence (Miscellaneous) (Scotland) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knife-dealers-licence-miscellaneous-scotland-order-2010",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes exceptions to the requirement for a knife dealer’s licence under section 27A of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (“the Act”).\nArticle 2 specifies exceptions to the activities which are regarded as a business under section 27A(4) of the Act. Article 2(2) excludes the hiring, offering or exposing for hire, lending or giving of arrows used in the sport of archery by a teacher to a pupil from the definition of a business.\nArticle 2(3) excludes the hiring, offering or exposing for hire, lending or giving of a knife used in a water sport by a teacher to a pupil from the definition of a business but only where the purpose is the safety of the pupil whilst undertaking a water sport.\nArticle 2(4) excludes the selling, hiring, offering or exposing for hire, lending or giving of an arrow, used in archery, or a fencing sword where these activities are carried on in connection with a competition recognised by Scottish Fencing, Scottish Archery Association or Scottish Field Archery Association and which take place in the vicinity of that competition.\nArticle 3 amends article 4(1) of the Knives etc. (Disposal of Forfeited Property) (Scotland) Order 2010 to remove an erroneous reference to recovery orders.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/311/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:54:13.301511+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."
}