{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matches-and-mechanical-lighters-duties-act-1979-repealed-111993/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matches-and-mechanical-lighters-duties-act-1979-repealed-111993/section-4.json",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  "legislation_title": "Matches and Mechanical Lighters Duties Act 1979 (repealed 1.1.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matches-and-mechanical-lighters-duties-act-1979-repealed-111993",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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Mechanical lighters.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act “mechanical lighter” means any portable contrivance intended to provide a means of ignition, whether by spark, flame or otherwise, being a mechanical, chemical, electrical or similar contrivance.\n(2) For the purposes of this Act—\n(a) any component which is, in accordance with section 5 below, the prescribed component of a mechanical lighter; or\n(b) any assembly which includes such a component,\nshall be deemed to be a mechanical lighter; and any reference in this Act to a manufacturer of mechanical lighters includes a reference to a person by whom any prescribed component of a mechanical lighter, or assembly which includes such a component, has been manufactured in the course of a business carried on by him, notwithstanding that he has not carried on the manufacture at a time when such a component or assembly is deemed to be a mechanical lighter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/6/section/4",
    "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."
}