50
In forceSerious firearm offenders
Part 3Custodial sentences
Division 3Serious firearm offenders
50 Serious firearm offenders
(1)
A person will, by force of this section, be taken to be a
serious firearm offender if the person is convicted of a serious firearm offence (whether the offence was committed as an adult or as a youth).
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a conviction of a serious firearm offence if—
(a)
the defendant was prosecuted and punished as a principal offender in respect of the offence under section 267 of the
Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935; or
(b)
the defendant's liability in respect of the offence derives solely from the defendant's involvement in a joint criminal enterprise (however described).
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