Schedule 5 STATUTORY OFFENCES THAT APPLY ONLY IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND SCOTLANDI1

United Kingdom

Section 5(1) (possessing, purchasing, acquiring, manufacturing, selling or transferring, without authorisation, any item listed in section 5(1) of the Firearms Act 1968)^f1.
Section 16 (possessing a firearm or ammunition, intending to endanger, or enable another to endanger, life).
Section 16A (possessing a firearm or imitation firearm, intending to cause, or to enable another to cause, a belief that unlawful violence will be used)^f2.
Section 17(1) (using, or attempting to use, a firearm, intending to prevent or resist lawful arrest or detention).
Section 17(2) (unlawfully possessing a firearm or imitation firearm while committing an offence listed in Schedule 1 to the Firearms Act 1968).
Section 18(1) (having a firearm or imitation forearm, intending to commit an indictable offence or to resist or prevent arrest).
Section 19 (unlawfully or unreasonably possessing, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, a loaded shot gun or air weapon or any other firearm, whether loaded or not, together with ammunition suitable for use in that firearm).

Annotations

f1: Section 5(1) was amended by article 6(1) of, and paragraph 3(1) of the Schedule to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1759); sections 1(1) to (3) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45); sections 1(1) to (5) and 52(2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (c. 5); and sections 1 and 2(7) of, and the Schedule to, the Firearms (Amendment) (No.2) Act 1997 (c. 64).
f2: Section 16A was inserted by section 1(1) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994 (c. 31).
f3: 1968 c. 27.