{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-knives-supreme-court-regulations-2013/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-knives-supreme-court-regulations-2013/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2532",
  "legislation_title": "The Retention of Knives (Supreme Court) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/retention-of-knives-supreme-court-regulations-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 51C of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (inserted by section 30 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013) provides for knives to be surrendered by, or seized from, persons entering the Supreme Court by Supreme Court security officers.\nKnives that have been surrendered or seized must be retained in accordance with section 51C of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. Regulation 3 sets out the procedure to be followed when a knife is retained and the information which a Supreme Court security officer must provide to the person who surrenders the knife or from whom it is seized.\nRegulation 4 requires the chief executive of the Supreme Court to keep a written record of any knives retained by Supreme Court security officers.\nRegulation 5 sets out the procedure for making a request for the return of a retained knife.\nRegulation 6 provides the procedure to be followed in dealing with a request for the return of a retained knife.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2532/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:39:02.524781+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."
}