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(1) This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Gun Barrel Proving) Order 1996 and shall come into force 28 days after the day on which it is made.
(2) This Order extends to Northern Ireland.
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In this Order “the 1868 Act” means the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868, “the 1950 Act” means the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1950 and “the 1978 Act” means the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978.
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(1) In section 118 of the 1868 Act (charges for proving and marking barrels) the words from “not exceeding” to the end are hereby repealed.
(2) The following provisions (which are spent in consequence of paragraph (1) above), namely—
(a) sections 3 and 4 of, and the Schedule to, the 1950 Act, and
(b) paragraph 20 of Schedule 3 to the 1978 Act, are also hereby repealed.
John M. Taylor,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs,
Department of Trade and Industry
17th June 1996