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Offensive Weapons Act 2019

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Schedule 1 consists of a table of corrosive substances and their concentrations. For the purposes of sections 1 to 4 of the Act, a corrosive product is a substance listed in the first column of Schedule 1, or a product that contains a substance listed in the first column of Schedule 1 in a concentration higher than that set out in the second column of Schedule 1.
The list in Schedule 1 was developed with the chemists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The chemical substances set out in Schedule 1 includes corrosive substances which we know have been used in attacks and also those which have the potential to be used as a weapon to inflict permanent and life changing injuries on people.

Schedule 2 details the consequential amendments to other Acts relating to sections 54 and 55 of this Act, this concerns the prohibition of certain firearms.