Part 8: Supplementary Section 66: Guidance on offences relating to offensive weapons etc
Section 66 enables the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland to issue guidance about the operation of offences relating to the sale and delivery, importation and possession of offensive weapons and corrosives. Before issuing such guidance, the relevant national authority (being the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers or the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland) must consult such persons likely to be affected as they consider appropriate (subsection 6) and must arrange for any guidance issued under this section to be published in such manner as the authority thinks appropriate (subsection (7). Guidance issued under this section may from time to time be revised (subsection 4).
	This section forms part of the law of the United Kingdom.