Firearms Prohibition Orders Legislation Amendment Bill
This bill changes the rules around Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPOs) — court orders that stop certain people from owning or using guns. It would allow courts to issue these orders to gang members and gang associates convicted of a wider range of offences. People who have had an order for 5 years could apply to a court to have it changed or removed. Police would also get new powers to search someone subject to an order — without needing a search warrant — to check they are following the rules.
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Courts will be able to issue firearms bans to a wider group of gang members and associates convicted of certain crimes, and Police can search those people without a warrant to check they are following the ban.
This section also applies when a court is sentencing an offender who has been convicted of [specified offences] and at the time of committing the offence was a member of a gang or an organised criminal group; or an associate of a gang or an organised criminal group.
A constable, who has reasonable grounds to believe that a person is subject to an FPO, may, without a warrant, do any or all of the following for the purpose of checking whether the person is complying with the conditions of the FPO.
A person who is subject to an FPO may, at any time after the FPO has been in force for 5 years, apply to the court that made the FPO for an order varying or modifying any of the conditions of the FPO; or revoking the FPO.
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