Sentencing Act 1997
42ASLimitation on number of hours of community service
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42AS Limitation on number of hours of community service
[Section 42AS Inserted by No. 51 of 2017, s. 15, Applied:14 Dec 2018]
(1) The maximum number of hours that a court may order community service to be performed, in accordance with a special condition, referred to in section 42AP(1)(d) , that is imposed on a community correction order in relation to one or more offences, is 240.
(2) A court that makes a community correction order in relation to an offender must not require the offender to perform, under the community correction order, community service for a number of hours that, aggregated with the number of hours of community service remaining to be completed under a community correction order, or a community service order, to which the offender is already subject, would exceed 240.
(3) This section does not apply to an MPCSO.