69QPeriod of unpaid community work to be performed

69Q Period of unpaid community work to be performed (1) The number of hours ordered by the court that an offender must perform unpaid community work as specified in an item in column 1 of the Table to this subsection may be performed over a period that is equal to or less than the period specified opposite the number of hours in the item in column 2 of the Table. **TABLE** | *Item* | *Column 1* | *Column 2* | | | *Hours of unpaid community work* | *Maximum period of order* | | 1 | 376 to 500 | 24 months | | 2 | 251 to 375 | 18 months | | 3 | 126 to 250 | 12 months | | 4 | 51 to 125 | 6 months | | 5 | 50 or less | 3 months | (2) The period over which unpaid community work must be performed, that a court specifies in a fines work order, must not be such a period as would require an offender to perform more than 20 hours of unpaid community work in any 7 day period. (3) Despite subsection (2) an offender may perform unpaid community work for up to 40 hours in a period of 7 days if he or she requests to do so and signs a written consent to performing the extra number of hours. S. 69R inserted by No. 32/2013 s. 47 (as amended by No. 77/2013 ss 45, 48).