Community work
156 Community work
Subject to subsection (4), the number of hours for which an infringement offender may be required to perform unpaid community work under a community work permit is one hour for each 0⋅2 penalty unit or part of 0⋅2 penalty unit of the outstanding registered infringement fines expressed as an amount equivalent to penalty units in relation to the enforcement warrants to which the permit applies with a minimum of 8 hours and a maximum of 500 hours.
Subject to subsection (3), the total number of hours to be worked in any period of 7 days must not exceed 20.
An infringement offender may work up to 40 hours in a period of 7 days if the infringement offender—
requests to do so; and
signs a written consent to working the extra number of hours.
The number of hours of unpaid community work specified in a community work permit must be performed over a period not exceeding the period specified in column 2 of the table below opposite the corresponding number of hours specified in column 1 of that table.
TABLE
Item | Column 1 Hours of unpaid community work | Column 2 Maximum period of order |
|---|
1 | 376 to 500 | 24 months |
2 3 4 5 | 251 to 375 126 to 250 51 to 125 50 or less | 18 months 12 months 6 months 3 months |
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