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Penalties and Sentences Act 1992
sec.109Court may make probation order and community service order for an offender
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### sec.109 Court may make probation order and community service order for an offender
If an offender is before a court for sentence after being convicted of an offence punishable by a term of imprisonment or a regulatory offence, the court may make for the offender a probation order mentioned in section 92 (1) (a) and also a community service order.
If a court makes a probation order and a community service order under subsection (1) , the court—
must make separate orders; and
must not impose an order as a requirement of the other order.
If an offender for whom a probation order and a community service order are made under subsection (1) contravenes a requirement of either order and is dealt with for the original offence in relation to the order, the other order is discharged.
(sec.109-ssec.1) If an offender is before a court for sentence after being convicted of an offence punishable by a term of imprisonment or a regulatory offence, the court may make for the offender a probation order mentioned in section 92 (1) (a) and also a community service order.
(sec.109-ssec.2) If a court makes a probation order and a community service order under subsection (1) , the court— must make separate orders; and must not impose an order as a requirement of the other order.
(sec.109-ssec.3) If an offender for whom a probation order and a community service order are made under subsection (1) contravenes a requirement of either order and is dealt with for the original offence in relation to the order, the other order is discharged.
- (a) must make separate orders; and
- (b) must not impose an order as a requirement of the other order.