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===Belgium=== Article 3, §1 of the 2006 Weapons Act<ref name="LAL" /> lists the switchblade or automatic knife (''couteaux à cran d'arrêt et à lame jaillissante'') as a prohibited weapon.<ref>''[http://www.just.fgov.be/fr_htm/ordre_judiciaire/loi_sur_les_armes/index.html Nouvelle Loi sur les Armes]'', retrieved 27 August 2011</ref> In Belgium, the police and local jurisdictions are also allowed to prohibit the carrying or possession of a wide variety of knives, which are not explicitly banned by law, if the owner cannot establish a legitimate reason (''motif légitime'') for having that knife, particularly in urban areas or at public events.<ref name="LAN">{{cite book |last=Lang |first=Oliver |date=March 2010 |title=Messer in Europa: Mit Dem Messer Auf Reisen (Übersicht - Messer & Recht im Ausland, Messer Magasin) |url=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/31834899/rev_42-47-Messer-in-Europaqxd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120180120/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/31834899/rev_42-47-Messer-in-Europaqxd |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 20, 2014 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="LAL">{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=September 1, 2008 |title=La loi sur les armes a été modifiée: quelles sont les nouveautés? |url=http://www.just.fgov.be/img_publications/pdf/166.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001011354/http://www.just.fgov.be/img_publications/pdf/166.pdf |archive-date=October 1, 2011 |access-date=August 27, 2011 |language=fr |edition=3rd |location=Bruxelles}}</ref>
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