Explanatory Notes

Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 38

8 November 2006

Commentary on Sections

Part 2: Weapons etc.

Section 44: Sale etc. of crossbows

260.This section amends the Crossbows Act 1987 to raise from seventeen to eighteen the age at which a person may be sold or hired a crossbow, and at which a person may buy, hire or possess (in the latter case without supervision by a person aged 21 or over) a crossbow.