SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 20 Detention under section 250 and minimum sentences: firearms offences
Sections 249 and 311

PART 1 Offences
1 An offence under section 5(1)(a), (ab), (aba), (ac), (ad), (ae), (af) or (c) of the Firearms Act 1968 (offence of having in possession, purchasing or acquiring weapon or ammunition) committed on or after 22 January 2004.
2 An offence under section 5(1A)(a) of the Firearms Act 1968 (offence of having in possession, purchasing or acquiring firearm disguised as another object) committed on or after 22 January 2004.
3 An offence under section 5(2A) of the Firearms Act 1968 (manufacture, sale or transfer of firearm or ammunition, or possession etc for sale or transfer) committed in respect of a relevant firearm or relevant ammunition.
4 (1) An offence under any of the provisions of the Firearms Act 1968 listed in sub-paragraph (2) committed on or after 6 April 2007 in respect of a relevant firearm or relevant ammunition.
(2) Those provisions are—
section 16 (possession of firearm or ammunition with intent to injure);
section 16A (possession of firearm with intent to cause fear or violence);
section 17 (use of firearm to resist arrest);
section 18 (carrying firearm with criminal intent);
section 19 (carrying a firearm in a public place);
section 20(1) (trespassing in a building with firearm).
5 An offence under section 28 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (using someone to mind a weapon), where the dangerous weapon in respect of which the offence was committed was a relevant firearm.

PART 2 Interpretation of Schedule
6 In this Schedule—
“relevant firearm” means a firearm specified in any of the following provisions of section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 (weapons subject to general prohibition)—
(a) subsection (1)(a), (ab), (aba), (ac), (ad), (ae) or (af);
(b) subsection (1A)(a);
“relevant ammunition” means ammunition specified in subsection (1)(c) of that section.
For this purpose, “firearm” and “ammunition” have the same meanings as in the Firearms Act 1968.