Following the repeal of s 16G of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth), the proper approach to sentencing Federal offenders is to impose a sentence meeting the requirements of s 16A(1) without a s 16G discount, rather than applying a fixed arithmetic uplift (such as 50%) to the pre-repeal sentencing range. While some increase in sentences is likely, the extent will emerge incrementally. Care must be taken when relying on pre-repeal decisions or sentencing statistics, as those sentences were predicated on the s 16G discount.
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