Violent Crime Reduction Bill - Overarching and individual RIAs
The overall objective of the proposed Violent Crime Reduction Bill is to provide the police and local communities with the powers they need to tackle guns, knives and alcohol-related violence. These RIAs relate to various aspects of the proposed legislation, including new powers and new offences.
Date: Tue Oct 18 17:23:50 BST 2005
- Violent Crime Reduction Bill - THE OVERARCHING RIA (PDF file - 58kb)
- Amendment to ensure imitation firearms can't be converted to fire live ammunition (PDF file - 39kb)
- Amendment to ban the sale of primers and reloading presses (PDF file - 48kb)
- Amendment to ban the sale of realistic imitations (PDF file - 50kb)
- Amendment to tighten controls on the misuse of air weapons (PDF file - 42kb)
- Restriction of the sale of knives to under 18-year-olds (PDF file - 39kb)
- New power for a head teacher to search a pupil for a concealed weapon (PDF file - 45kb)
- Defence of supplying offensive weapons for film, television or theatre productions (PDF file - 32kb)
- Police powers to review licences of premises associated with serious crime (PDF file - 119kb)
- Closure of premises following persistent sales of alcohol to persons under 18 years old (PDF file - 186kb)
- Power to detain vehicles used for trafficking for sexual exploitation (PDF file - 30kb)
- Drinking Banning Order and directions to individuals to leave a locality (PDF file - 106kb)
- Alcohol Disorder Zones (PDF file - 107kb)
- Mobile phone re-programming (PDF file - 44kb)
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