141 Offensive weapons
Criminal Justice Act 1988 (1988 c 33) | Legislation

141  Offensive weapons

(1)     Any person who manufactures, sells or hires or offers for sale or hire, exposes or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or hire, or lends or gives to any other person, a weapon to which this section applies shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both °Ú—

(a)     on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both;

(b)     on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 4 years, or to a fine, or to both].

[(1A)     Any person who possesses a weapon to which this section applies in private is guilty of an offence and liable—

(a)     on summary conviction in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks, to a fine or to both;

(b)     on summary conviction in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both;

(c)     on summary

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