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Offensive Weapons Act 2019

  • 2019
  • Primary

An Act that strengthened the law on offensive weapons and knife crime by banning certain weapons outright (corrosive substances, rapid-fire rifles, bump stocks), extending restrictions on the sale of knives and corrosive products, creating a new offence of having a bladed article in a public place with the intention of causing injury, and giving police new powers to seize offensive weapons from dwellings with a court order.

Last updated 24 September 2026