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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/22",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Offences under the following provisions of the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 subject to note 1 below—\n(a) Article 4(1), (2), (3) or (4) (manufacturing, dealing in, repairing, etc, firearm or ammunition without being registered) . . .;\n(b) Article 5 (shortening barrel of shot gun or converting imitation firearm into firearm) . . .;\n(c) Article 6(1) (manufacturing, dealing in or possessing certain weapons, etc.) . . .;\n(d) Article 17 (possessing firearm or ammunition with intent to endanger life or cause serious damage to property);\n(e) Article 18 (use or attempted use of firearm or imitation firearm to prevent arrest of self or another etc.);\n(f) Article 19 (carrying firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit indictable offence or prevent arrest of self or another);\n(g) Article 20 (carrying firearm, etc, in public place) subject to note 4 below;\n(h) 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) . . .;\n(i) Article 23 (possessing firearm or ammunition in suspicious circumstances).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 16 inserted (8.4.1998) by 1998 c. 9, s. 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 16 repealed (8.4.1998) by 1998 c. 9, ss. 2(2)(c), 7(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 16 substituted (8.4.1998) by 1998 c. 9, s. 7(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(5)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/22/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:09.613224+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."
}