{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/38",
  "legislation_title": "Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Age limits for purchase etc. of air weapons",
  "text": "(1) The 1968 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) For section 22(1) (acquisition and possession of firearms by minors) substitute—\n“(1) It is an offence—\n(a) for a person under the age of eighteen to purchase or hire an air weapon or ammunition for an air weapon;\n(b) for a person under the age of seventeen to purchase or hire a firearm or ammunition of any other description.”\n(3) In subsection (4) of that section, for “seventeen” substitute “ eighteen ”.\n(4) For section 24(1) (supplying firearms to minors) substitute—\n“(1) It is an offence—\n(a) to sell or let on hire an air weapon or ammunition for an air weapon to a person under the age of eighteen;\n(b) to sell or let on hire a firearm or ammunition of any other description to a person under the age of seventeen.”\n(5) In subsection (4) of that section in paragraphs (a) and (b), for “seventeen” substitute “ eighteen ”.\n(6) In the table in Part 1 of Schedule 6 (punishment)—\n(a) in the entry for section 22(1), in the second column, at the end insert “ or person under 18 acquiring air weapon ”;\n(b) in the entry for section 22(4), in the second column, for “17” substitute “ 18 ”;\n(c) in the entry for section 24(1), in the second column, at the end insert “ or an air weapon to a person under 18 ”;\n(d) in the entry for section 24(4), in the second column, for “17” substitute “ 18 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 33 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2180, art. 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:02.750793+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."
}