Section 7
Amendment of section 130v
of Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2014
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Section 7
The Code is amended in section 130v—
(a)
by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1);
(b)
in subsection (1), by substituting for the words “which may extend to five years” the words “of not less than five years and not more than twenty years”; and
(c)
by inserting after the renumbered subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(2) Until the contrary is proved, a person shall be presumed to be a member of an organized criminal group where—
(a)
such person can be identified as belonging to an organized criminal group; or
(b)
such person is found with a scheduled weapon as specified under the Corrosive and Explosive
Substances and Offensive Weapons Act 1958
[Act 357].”.