The Act Overview Aggravation of offences against emergency workers Section 44—Aggravation of offences against emergency workers
106.Section 44 provides for the aggravation of offences that are committed in a manner involving the use of a firework or pyrotechnic article, and where the victim (or intended victim) is an emergency worker. Subsection (2) provides the definition of “emergency worker”.
107.On conviction, the court is required to state that an offence is aggravated by the use of a firework or pyrotechnic article, record the conviction in a way that shows the offence is so aggravated and take the aggravation into account when determining the appropriate sentence. The court must also state reasons for why the sentence is or is not different from a sentence that would have been imposed had the offence not been aggravated.