(1) When a court is imposing a sentence on an offender who is convicted of a
serious drug offence, the court must issue a certificate (a
"serious drug offence certificate" ) for each serious drug offence of which
the offender is convicted.
(a) the court is sentencing the offender for 2 or more serious drug
offences (
"related offences" ); and
(b) the court is satisfied on the balance of
probabilities that the offences arise out of a single course of conduct.
Example for subsection (2)—
An offender is convicted of producing a
dangerous drug, possessing a dangerous drug and possessing things used in
connection with the production of a dangerous drug and the 3 offences arise
from the production of the same dangerous drug.
(4) For
subsection (3) , the
"most serious related offence" of which the person is convicted is—
(a) the
related offence that belongs to the highest category mentioned in schedule 1B
, with category A being the highest; or
(b) if more than 1 related offence
belongs to the same category mentioned in schedule 1B —the offence that was
committed first.
(5) For subsection (4) (b) , if an offence has been
committed over a period of time, the date of commission of the offence is the
date the person started committing the offence.