Criminal Justice Act 1988
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| Citation | 1988 c 33 |
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| Royal assent | 29 July 1988 |
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Status: Amended
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The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c 33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The title of this Act is:
This section creates an offence of manufacturing, distributing and importing offensive weapons, but does not itself define which weapons it applies to, other than excluding firearms and crossbows. Subsection 141(2) allows a statutory instrument to define them; one such order is the Criminal Justice Act 1998 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988. In August 2016, an amendment to this order came into force to include zombie knives in the list of prohibited weapons.
The power conferred by section 171(1) has been exercised by the following orders:
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