Offensive Weapons, bladed articles & going equipped

Question 1

Possession of an offensive weapon in a public place

S1 prevention of crime act 1953

Answer 1

Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse the proof whereof shall lie on him has with him in any public place any offensive weapon shall be guilty of an offence.

Question 2

Bladed or sharply pointed articles

Sec139 criminal justice act 1988

Answer 2

It is an offence for a person to have with him any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed, except a folding pocketknife, in a public place without good reason or lawful authority, the onus of proof being on the carrier.

Question 3

bladed article on school premis

S1391 criminal justice act

Answer 3

Any person who has an article which has a blade or is sharply pointed with them on school premises without good reason or lawful authority

Question 4

school premis

S139a(2) criminal justice act

Answer 4

Any person who has an offensive weapon with them on school premises commits an offence

These are only for primary or secondary schools. Nothing post 16.

Question 5

S550ZA(England) S550AA(Wales) Education act 1996

Answer 5

Head teachers, or members of staff authorised by the head teacher, have a power to search a pupil & their belongings if they have a reasonable grounds to suspect that the pupil may have with them, or in their possessions, an article to which section 139 criminal justice act 1988 applies, or an offensive weapon under section 1 prevention of

Question 6

Going equipped

S25 theft act 1968

Answer 6

A person shall be guilty of an offence, if when not at his place of abode, he has with him, any article, for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary or theft.