{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-2022/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-2022/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2022/235",
  "legislation_title": "The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThis Order brings into operation on 6th October 2022 section 6 of the Act, which is the offence of having a corrosive substance in a public place.\nFor the purposes of this Order corrosive substance means a substance which is capable of burning human skin by corrosion and public place includes any place to which, at the time in question, the public have or are permitted access, whether on payment or otherwise.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/235/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:33:31.327069+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."
}