{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matches-and-mechanical-lighters-duties-act-1979-repealed-111993/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matches-and-mechanical-lighters-duties-act-1979-repealed-111993/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/6",
  "legislation_title": "Matches and Mechanical Lighters Duties Act 1979 (repealed 1.1.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matches-and-mechanical-lighters-duties-act-1979-repealed-111993",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Licences to manufacture matches.",
  "text": "(1) No person shall manufacture matches unless he holds an excise licence for that purpose granted under this section.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) If any person manufactures matches otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence granted under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale, and the matches shall be liable to forfeiture.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(2) repealed by Finance Act 1986 (c. 41, SIF 40:1), ss. 8(2)(a), 114, Sch. 23 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(3) repealed by Finance Act 1986 (c. 41, SIF 40:1), s. 114, Sch. 23 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I.) by S.I. 1984/703, (N.I. 3) arts. 5, 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/6/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:19:14.343206+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."
}