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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
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316 Meaning of community service work
(1) Community service work includes any of the following prescribed by
regulation:
(a) work;
(b) community service programs.
Note Power to make a statutory instrument (including a regulation) includes
power to make different provision in relation to different matters or
different classes of matters, and to make an instrument that applies
differently by reference to stated exceptions or factors (see Legislation
Act, s 48).
Community service work—general Chapter 14
(2) If an offender who is subject to a community service order attends a
program for therapy or education in accordance with the directions of
the director-general, the attendance at the program is taken to be
community service work.
Note The number of hours of attendance at a program for therapy or education
which may count toward the performance of a community service
condition is limited under—
(a) if the condition forms part of an intensive correction order—s 48A;
or
(b) if the condition forms part of a good behaviour order—s 93A.