{"id":48826,"date":"2018-12-01T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=48826"},"modified":"2018-12-01T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:57:29","slug":"uk-amends-weapons-bill-to-ensure-right-to-possession-of-kirpans-by-sikhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/uk-amends-weapons-bill-to-ensure-right-to-possession-of-kirpans-by-sikhs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK amends weapons bill to ensure right to possession of kirpans by Sikhs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has confirmed an amendment to a new weapons bill going through the Parliament to ensure that it would not impact the right of the British Sikh community to possess and supply Kirpans, or religious swords.<\/p>\n<p>The Offensive Weapons Bill 2018 completed its various readings in the House of Commons this week and has now moved to the House of Lords for approval. The bill involves a new offence of possessing certain offensive weapons in public and places new restrictions on the online sales of bladed articles and corrosive products.<\/p>\n<p>The All Party Parliamentary Group for British Sikhs led a delegation to the UK Home Office in recent weeks to ensure that the kirpan remains exempt when the new bill becomes law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has confirmed an amendment to a new weapons bill going through the Parliament to ensure that it would not impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48828,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48826\/revisions\/48828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}