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SUMMARY |
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This enactment repeals the Firearms Act and reinstates Part III of the
Criminal Code as it read before the Firearms Act came into force.
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It also institutes a minimum term of five years imprisonment if an
offender uses or has or claims to have in his possession a firearm during
the commission of an indictable offence or attempt, or in flight from the
offence or attempt. If the firearm is discharged during the offence,
attempt or subsequent flight, the minimum is ten years.
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The enactment also requires the court to impose a lifetime ban on
owning firearms as an additional punishment for a person convicted of
an indictable offence with a firearm.
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