The Crossbows (Northern Ireland) Order 1988

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1988 No. 794 — creates 3 criminal offences.

Made

27 April 1988

In force from

28 June 1988

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Miscellaneous

Made under

Crossbows Act 1987, Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order is made only for purposes corresponding to those of the Crossbows Act 1987. The Order creates offences relating to the sale and letting on hire of crossbows to, and the purchase, hiring and possession of crossbows by, persons under the age of seventeen.

Offences created by this instrument

• Sale and letting on hire article 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Purchase and hiring article 4 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Possession article 5 · Status not determined · Strict liability

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

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• This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
• Other instruments from 1988