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Fines and Penalties (Recovery) Act 2001
77Community work order
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77 Community work order
(a) a fine defaulter has not paid the fine or penalty and
enforcement costs as required by the notice of the
enforcement order served on him or her; and
(b) the Director believes on reasonable grounds that enforcement
action under Division 8 (whether initiated or not) will not be
effective in satisfying the enforcement order;
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the Fines Recovery Unit may make a community work order
requiring the fine defaulter to participate in an approved project in
order to work off the amount that remains unpaid.
(2) The Fines Recovery Unit may make a community work order in the
absence of and without notice to the fine defaulter.
(4) An appeal does not lie in respect of the making of a community
work order under this Division or the failure to make such an order.