There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, Section 43.
(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—
“(a)any knife which has a blade which opens automatically—
(i)from the closed position to the fully opened position, or
(ii)from a partially opened position to the fully opened position,
by 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”.
(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—
“(a)any knife which has a blade which opens automatically—
(i)from the closed position to the fully opened position, or
(ii)from a partially opened position to the fully opened position,
by 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”.
Commencement Information
I1S. 43(1) in force at 14.7.2021 for E.W.S. by S.I. 2021/819, reg. 2(a)
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