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Forbid
the sale manufacture, hire, loan or importation of sharpened
samurai |
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swords; and for connected
purposes. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Amendment
to the Criminal Justice Act |
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(1) |
The Criminal Justice Act
(c. 33) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In section 141, subsection
(8) after sub-paragraph (b) there is inserted— |
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“(c) |
with an offence under section
141B”. |
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(3) |
In Part XI, after section
141(A) there is inserted— |
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(1) |
Any person person who
manufactures, sells or hires or offers for sale or |
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hire,
exposes or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or
hire, or |
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lends
or gives to any other person, a samurai sword shall be guilty
of |
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an
offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for
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term
not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5
on the |
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(2) |
For the purposes of this
section, the term "samurai sword" shall mean a |
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thrusting,
striking or cutting weapon with a blade of 30cm or more |
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which
is curved to any degree, having one sharpened edge capable of
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inflicting
a cut of any description on a person and having a hilt or a
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(3) |
The importation of a
samurai sword to which this section applies is |
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(4) |
The defences set out
in sections 141(5) shall also apply to any offence |
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(5) |
The Secretary of State
may by order made by statutory instrument |
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direct
that this section shall not apply in circumstances specified
in the |
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order
and may make provision for certain activities that might |
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otherwise
constitute an offence under this section to be authorised by
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means
of the grant of an appropriate license. |
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(6) |
A statutory instrument
containing an order under this section shall not |
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be
made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before |
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Parliament
and has been approved by a resolution of each House of |
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There
shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any increase
attributable to |
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this
Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other
enactment. |
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Short
title, extent and commencement |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Samurai Swords Act 2006. |
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(2) |
The amendments made by
this Act have the same extent as the provisions |
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(3) |
This Act comes into force
at the end of a period of two months beginning with |
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the date on which it is
passed. |
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