Textual Amendments
F1Order revoked (S.) (29.9.2005) by The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Scotland) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/483), art. 3
[F26. For the purposes of [F3paragraphs 3, 4 [F4, 5A and 5B]], a person shall be taken to have shown a matter specified in those paragraphs if—E+W+N.I.
(a)sufficient evidence of that matter is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and
(b)the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.]
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. paras. 3-6 inserted (E.W.N.I.) (6.4.2008) by The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons)(Amendment) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/973), arts. 1(1), 2(3)
F3Words in Sch. para. 6 substituted (1.8.2008) by The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2039), arts. 1(1), 2(4)
F4Words in Sch. para. 6 substituted (14.7.2021 for E.W.) by Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (c. 17), s. 47(9) (with s. 47(10)); S.I. 2021/819, reg. 2(e)