Opposition to Queensland’s tough new anti-bikie laws is mounting with the country’s peak motorcycling body set to open a national fighting fund.

The Australian Motorcycle Council will open a fighting fund on Monday to raise money for any High Court challenge to the laws enacted in Queensland Parliament last week.

It comes after a 25-year-old Gold Coast man, allegedly a member of a Hells Angels ‘‘feeder gang’’ called the Red Devils, was arrested at the weekend and charged with drug possession.

Under the Newman government’s anti-bikie laws, which set mandatory jail sentences for outlaw gang members, the 25-year-old man could be imprisoned for more than 15 years if convicted of the minor drugs charges.

His Brisbane solicitor Ashkan Tai, of high-profile criminal law firm Ryan & Bosscher Lawyers, said he would seek bail on behalf of his client in the Supreme Court in the coming weeks.