Knives Act 1997
The offences
1 Unlawful marketing of knives.
2 Publications.
The defences
3 Exempt trades.
4 Other defences.
Supplementary powers
5 Supplementary powers of entry, seizure and retention.
6 Forfeiture of knives and publications.
7 Effect of a forfeiture order.
Stopping and searching
8 Powers to stop and search for knives or offensive weapons.
Miscellaneous
9 Offences by bodies corporate.
10 Interpretation.
11 Short title, commencement, extent etc.

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Knives Act 1997

1997 CHAPTER 21

An Act to create new criminal offences in relation to the possession or marketing of, and publications relating to, knives; to confer powers on the police to stop and search people or vehicles for knives and other offensive weapons and to seize items found; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—