WEAPONS PROHIBITION ACT 1998 - SECT 25B Possession of digital blueprints for manufacture of prohibited weapons

WEAPONS PROHIBITION ACT 1998 - SECT 25B

25B Possession of digital blueprints for manufacture of prohibited weapons

(1) A person must not possess a digital blueprint for the manufacture of a prohibited weapon on a 3D printer or on an electronic milling machine.

: Maximum penalty--imprisonment for 14 years.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who is--

(a) authorised by a permit to manufacture the prohibited weapon concerned, or

(b) acting in the ordinary course of the person's duties as a member (other than a police officer) of the Police Force.

(3) In this section--


"digital blueprint" means any type of digital (or electronic) reproduction of a technical drawing of the design of an object.


"possession" , of a digital blueprint, includes the following--

(a) possession of a computer or data storage device holding or containing the blueprint or of a document in which the blueprint is recorded,

(b) control of the blueprint held in a computer that is in the possession of another person (whether the computer is in this jurisdiction or outside this jurisdiction).