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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019-prescribed-documents-scotland-order-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2022/148",
  "legislation_title": "The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (Prescribed Documents) (Scotland) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019-prescribed-documents-scotland-order-2022",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 1(1) of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (“the Act”) makes it an offence to sell a corrosive product to a person who is under the age of 18. Section 4(4) makes it an offence for a body corporate to deliver a corrosive product if, when they deliver it, they do not deliver it into the hands of a person aged 18 or over. A defence is available for both offences where the seller or delivery corporate body believed the sale or delivery was to a person aged 18 or over and that they had taken reasonable steps to establish that person’s age. The reasonable steps which can be taken to establish a person’s age are listed as being shown a passport, a European Union photocard driving licence or such other document as the Scottish Ministers may prescribe.\nThis Order prescribes a United Kingdom photocard driving licence as a document which can be shown to a seller or delivery body corporate as part of the reasonable steps they may take to establish a person’s age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2022/148/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:50:11.650138+00:00"
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  "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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