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Sentencing Act 1997
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### 42AT Forms of community service
> [*\[Section 42AT Inserted by No. 51 of 2017, s. 15, Applied:14 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-14/act-2017-051#GS15@EN)
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> > (1) A probation officer may arrange for an offender, who is subject to a community correction order on which is imposed a special condition referred to in [section 42AP(1)(d)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpd@EN) , to perform community service for the benefit of a victim of an offence in relation to which the order was imposed.
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> > (2) Community service that an offender performs under [subsection (1)](#GS33@Gs1@EN) is taken to be performance of community service under the community correction order.
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> > (3) If an offender, who is subject to a community correction order on which is imposed a special condition referred to in [section 42AP(1)(d)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpd@EN) , attends an educational or other program in accordance with the directions of a probation officer, the time that the offender spends attending that program is taken to be performance of community service under the order.