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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-1996/section-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/26",
  "legislation_title": "Offensive Weapons Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-1996",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Short title and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Offensive Weapons Act 1996.\n(2) Sections 2(3) and (4), 3 and 4(1), (2) and (4) and this section extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/26/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:06.388366+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."
}