{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002-specification-of-particularly-serious-crimes-order-2004/schedule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002-specification-of-particularly-serious-crimes-order-2004/schedule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1910",
  "legislation_title": "The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Specification of Particularly Serious Crimes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002-specification-of-particularly-serious-crimes-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "STATUTORY OFFENCES THAT APPLY ONLY IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND SCOTLAND",
  "text": "Section 5(1) (possessing, purchasing, acquiring, manufacturing, selling or transferring, without authorisation, any item listed in section 5(1) of the Firearms Act 1968).\nSection 16 (possessing a firearm or ammunition, intending to endanger, or enable another to endanger, life).\nSection 16A (possessing a firearm or imitation firearm, intending to cause, or to enable another to cause, a belief that unlawful violence will be used).\nSection 17(1) (using, or attempting to use, a firearm, intending to prevent or resist lawful arrest or detention).\nSection 17(2) (unlawfully possessing a firearm or imitation firearm while committing an offence listed in Schedule 1 to the Firearms Act 1968).\nSection 18(1) (having a firearm or imitation forearm, intending to commit an indictable offence or to resist or prevent arrest).\nSection 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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 in force at 12.8.2004, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 16A was inserted by section 1(1) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994 (c. 31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1968 c. 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1910/schedule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:21:45.230646+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."
}