Sentencing Act 1995

The purpose of the community service requirement is to punish or rehabilitate an offender by making him or her do unpaid community work.

The community service requirement is a requirement that within the term of the ISO the offender —

must do unpaid community work for a number of hours set by the court; and

must do at least 12 hours of that work in any 7 day period; and

must perform community corrections activities if and as ordered by the CEO (corrections) under Part 7 of the Sentence Administration Act 2003.

The number of hours set by the court must be at least 40 and not more than 240.

Any hours of work done by an offender count as hours done under a community service requirement in any other community order, unless the court orders that the number of hours of work to be done are to be done in addition to any hours the offender has to do under another community order.

At any one time the total number of hours of work yet to be done by an offender under community orders must not exceed 240.

A community service requirement ceases to be in force when the offender finishes working the hours set to the satisfaction of a CCO or when the ISO ceases to be in force, whichever happens first.