Legalise multi-tools for tradesmen

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Legalise multi-tools for tradesmen

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Currently it is illegal to carry a multi-tool with a locking blade.
This was a mistake made during a case law Harris v DPP and Deegan v Regina was the appeal that failed on a technicality, causing the ban to be upheld.

I would like to see a legal exemption for multi-tools.

Mr John Patten, The Minister of State at the Home Office, explained the Government thinking [behind section 139 of the criminal Justice Act] saying 'When the Bill was printed for the other place [House of Lords],
.... exempting ordinary pocket knives that lock into the open position, which is what the amendment seeks to do. Folding, locking pocket knives, which I am advised that many people carry because they are safer to use than the non-locking variety, will be excepted from the general offence, which is right, but the exception will apply only to folding pocket knives with a sharpened blade of 3 in or less.

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