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Sentencing Act 1991
69OTerm of unpaid community work
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69O Term of unpaid community work
(1) The number of hours for which a person in default of payment of a fine or an instalment under an instalment order may be required to perform unpaid community work is 1 hour for each 0⋅2 penalty unit or part of 0⋅2 penalty unit then remaining unpaid up to an amount equivalent to the value of 100 penalty units with a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 500 hours.
(2) The minimum and maximum number of hours set out in subsection (1) apply, if the person is in default of more than one fine or instalment, to the aggregate number of hours for which he or she may be required to perform unpaid community work in respect of the amounts then remaining unpaid of all the fines or instalments of which he or she is then in default and to which the proceeding under section 69D or 69E relates.
S. 69P inserted by No. 32/2013 s. 47 (as amended by No. 77/2013 ss 45, 48).