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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1991-repealed-2581996/schedule-1/paragraph-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/24",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991 (repealed 25.8.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1991-repealed-2581996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Offences under the following provisions of the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 1981—\n(a) Article 3(1) (possessing, purchasing or acquiring firearm or ammunition without certificate) subject to note 1 below;\n(b) Article 4(1), (2), (3) or (4) (manufacturing, dealing in, repairing, etc, firearm or ammunition without being registered) subject to note 1 below;\n(c) Article 5 (shortening barrel of shot gun or converting imitation firearm into firearm) subject to note 1 below;\n(d) Article 6(1) (manufacturing, dealing in or possessing machine gun, or weapon discharging, or ammunition containing, noxious substance) subject to note 1 below;\n(e) Article 17 (possessing firearm or ammunition with intent to endanger life or cause serious damage to property);\n(f) Article 18 (use or attempted use of firearm or imitation firearm to prevent arrest of self or another etc.);\n(g) Article 19 (carrying firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit indictable offence or prevent arrest of self or another);\n(h) Article 20 (carrying firearm, etc., in public place) subject to notes 1 and 4 below;\n(i) Article 22 (possession of firearm or ammunition by person who has been sentenced to imprisonment, etc., and sale of firearm or ammunition to such a person) subject to note 1 below;\n(j) Article 23 (possessing firearm or ammunition in suspicious circumstances).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/24/schedule/1/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:38:30.906049+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."
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