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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010/schedule-11/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/976",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Amend paragraph 4 (manufacture, import and sale of realistic imitation firearms) as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) The Department of Justice may by regulations—\n(a) provide for exceptions and exemptions from the offence under sub-paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c); and\n(b) provide for it to be a defence in proceedings for such an offence to show the matters specified or described in the regulations.”\n(3) In sub-paragraph (3) for “(1)” substitute “(1)(d)”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (4)—\n(a) for “(3)” substitute “(2A) or (3)”; and\n(b) in paragraph (c) after “as” insert “the Department of Justice or (as the case may be)”.\n(5) After sub-paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) The power of the Department of Justice to make regulations under sub-paragraph (2A) shall be exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.\n(4B) That power includes power—\n(a) to make different provision for different cases;\n(b) to make provision subject to such exemptions and exceptions as the Department of Justice thinks fit; and\n(c) to make such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional provision as the Department of Justice thinks fit.\n(4C) Regulations under sub-paragraph (2A) shall be subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 15 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Section 41(6) was amended by S.I. 1999/663."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/976/schedule/11/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:39.950485+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."
}