Acquisition and Possession of Air Weapons (Restriction).

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Acquisition and Possession of Air Weapons (Restriction)

This is the text of the Acquisition and Possession of Air Weapons (Restriction), as presented to the House of Commons on 21 January 1998.

Acquisition and Possession of Air Weapons (Restriction)

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

Clause

1. Acquisition and possession of air weapons by minors.

2. Supply of air weapons to minors.

3. Short title.

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Amend the Firearms Act 1968 to restrict the acquisition and possession of air weapons; and for connected purposes.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Acquisition and possession of air weapons by minors.     1. - (1) Section 22 (acquisition and possession of firearms by minors) of the Firearms Act 1968 is amended as set out in this section.

    (2) In subsection (1), after "firearm", there is inserted ", air weapon".

    (3) In subsection (4), for "fourteen" there is substituted "seventeen".

    (4) Subsection (5) is repealed.

Supply of air weapons to minors.     2. - (1) Section 24 (supply of air weapons to minors) of the Firearms Act 1968 is amended as set out in this section.

    (2) In subsection (1), after "firearm", there is inserted ", air weapon".

    (3) In subsection (4)(a), for "fourteen" there is substituted "seventeen".

Short title.     3. This Act may be cited as the Acquisition and Possession of Air Weapons (Restriction) Act 1998.

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