{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/17",
  "legislation_title": "Offensive Weapons Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offensive-weapons-act-2019",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Amendments to the definition of “flick knife”",
  "text": "(1) In section 1 of the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 (penalties for offences in connection with dangerous weapons), in subsection (1), for paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) any knife which has a blade which opens automatically—\n(i) from the closed position to the fully opened position, or\n(ii) from a partially opened position to the fully opened position,\nby manual pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the knife, and which is sometimes known as a “flick knife” or “flick gun”; or”.\n(2) In Article 53 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (SI 1996/3160 (NI 24)) (manufacture or sale etc of certain knives), in paragraph (1), for the first sub-paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) any knife which has a blade which opens automatically—\n(i) from the closed position to the fully opened position, or\n(ii) from a partially opened position to the fully opened position,\nby manual pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the knife, and which is sometimes known as a “flick knife” or “flick gun”; or”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 43(1) in force at 14.7.2021 for E.W.S. by S.I. 2021/819, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/17/section/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:08.273558+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."
}