{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/section-32.json",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  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed",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": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Possession of items intended for terrorist purposes.",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he has any article in his possession in circumstances giving rise to a reasonable suspicion that the item is in his possession for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland.\n(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that at the time of the alleged offence the article in question was not in his possession for such a purpose as is mentioned in subsection (1).\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or a fine or both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both.\n(4) Subsections (1), (2) and (5) of section 13 shall apply where a person is charged with possessing an article in such circumstances as to constitute an offence under this section as they apply where a person is charged with possessing a proscribed article in such circumstances as are there mentioned.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 32 restricted (27.2.1997) by 1997 c. 7, s. 4(1), Sch. para. 10(e) (with s. 11(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 32 modified (20.7.2000) (in so far as continued by virtue of Sch. 1 of the modifying Act) by 2000 c. 11, ss. 118(5)(b), 128"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/22/section/32",
    "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."
}