Sentencing Act 2017

The following provisions apply to an intensive correction order that includes a condition requiring the performance of community service:

the court must specify the number of hours of community service to be performed by the person to whom the sentence relates, being not less than 15 or more than 300;

the court must not specify a number of hours of community service to be performed by a person who is already performing, or is liable to perform, community service, where the aggregate of that number and the number of hours previously specified would exceed 300;

the court must specify a period, not exceeding 18 months, within which the community service is to be performed;

the person is required to report to a specified place not later than 2 working days after the date of the order unless, within that period, the person receives a notice from the CE to the contrary;

the person is required to perform community service for not less than 4 hours each week and on such day, or days, as the community corrections officer to whom the person is assigned may direct;

the person may not, except in circumstances approved by the

if on any day a period of community service is to exceed 4 continuous hours, the next hour must be a meal break;

the person may not be required to perform community service at a time that would interfere with the person's remunerated employment or with a course of training or instruction relating to, or likely to assist the person to obtain, remunerated employment, or that would cause unreasonable disruption of the person's commitments in caring for the person's dependants;

the person may not be required to perform community service at a time that would cause the person to offend against a rule of a religion that the person practises;

the attendance of the person at any educational or recreational course of instruction approved by the Minister for Correctional Services will be taken to be performance of community service;

the person will not be remunerated for the performance of community service under the order;

the person must obey the lawful directions of the community corrections officer to whom the person is assigned.

This section does not apply in relation to the performance of community service by a youth.