Part 6Community service and other work related orders

Part 6—Community service and other work related orders 49—Community service and work orders cannot be imposed unless there is a placement for the youth (1) No order, direction or requirement can be made by virtue of which a youth will be required to perform community service or participate in a particular work project, programme or camp unless there is, or will be within a reasonable time, a suitable placement for the youth in a community service programme, or in that work project, programme or camp. (2) When a court sentences a youth to community service, it must nominate an appropriate person who is, on the satisfactory completion by the youth of the community service, to certify that fact to the court.