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### 42AS Limitation on number of hours of community service
> [*\[Section 42AS Inserted by No. 51 of 2017, s. 15, Applied:14 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-14/act-2017-051#GS15@EN)
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> > (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)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpd@EN) , that is imposed on a community correction order in relation to one or more offences, is 240.
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> > (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.
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> > (3) This section does not apply to an MPCSO.