Section 43 Offensive Weapons Act 2019

Section 43 of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 is about
Amendments to the definition of “flick knife”. It provides as follows:

(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”.

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