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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
320Community service work—work health and safety
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320 Community service work—work health and safety
(1) The director-general must ensure, as far as practicable, that the
conditions for doing community service work comply with
requirements under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 in relation
to work by workers.
(2) In particular, the director-general must ensure that arrangements for
an offender do to community service work take account, as far as
practicable, of the need—
(a) to secure the health, safety and welfare of the offender; and
(b) to protect people at or near community service work workplaces
from risks to health or safety arising out of the activities of the
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(3) A regulation may provide for the application of the Work Health and
Safety Act 2011 in relation to community service work, including
modifications of the Act in its application in relation to an offender
doing community service work.