Where an offender is found guilty in one proceeding of three or more continuing criminal enterprise offences under s 6H(1)(c) of the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic), the doubled maximum penalty under s 6I applies to all qualifying offences, not merely the third and subsequent offences. R v Grossi is no longer to be followed on this point. However, the sentencing judge retains a discretion not to impose a greater sentence on the qualifying offences if the circumstances do not warrant it. Offences committed before 1 July 1998 may qualify as 'relevant offences' under s 6H but the offender cannot be sentenced under the increased maximum for those pre-commencement offences.
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