74   Effect of firearms prohibition order

(1)  A person must not possess or use a firearm in contravention of a firearms prohibition order that is in force.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years if the firearm concerned is a prohibited firearm or pistol, or imprisonment for 5 years in any other case.

(2)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) and for the purposes only of that subsection, a firearm found in or on any premises is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, taken to be possessed by any person subject to a firearms prohibition order who at the time of the finding or recently to that time was in or on or in occupation of the premises.

(3)  A person must not sell or give possession of a firearm to another person, knowing that the other person is prohibited from possessing firearms by a firearms prohibition order.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years if the firearm concerned is a prohibited firearm or pistol, or imprisonment for 5 years in any other case.

(4)  In this section, premises includes any structure, vehicle, vessel or aircraft or any place, whether built on or not.