Further clarification, received by forwarded email:

"The Morris Fed along with the Ring have been looking into this for about 6 weeks now, from when it 1st came up... I sent info about it to StoneMonkey via Ron, SDU via Sal Wearing and various others then.. weeks ago.. and the received info to investigations show:

A Sword under this Act (which by the way IS in law and has been since April) is defined as over 50 cms (20 inches ish) long, Rigid Curved and Sharpened on at least 1 edge. So longswords, Rapper swords etc should not be caught by it, only if Grenosides Captain decides to sharpen the sword used in that role (or Monkeys, or Kingsmen etc ) will it be "illegal"... and Para 4 of the details of the Act give Exemption for Historic Re-enactments (so I assume a Lord somewhere is in the Sealed Knot!)... and if what we do is not Historic blah blah etc ... it would be a most enlightening court Hearing to be involved in and I wonder how much Good Publicity we could get from it...

Yes sign the petition to raise awareness but dont Panic...

Trefor Owen Morris Fed Pres...."

Hey ho! Perhaps I should have waited, but went ahead on the strength of names I recognised amongst the signatories. It won't hurt anyway, so I'm not THAT apologetic!!