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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Community-based sentences - Community work

58: Length of sentence of community work

You could also call this:

"How long you have to complete your community work sentence"

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If you get a sentence of community work that is 100 hours or less, you must finish it within 6 months of when it starts, as stated in section 75, 75A, or 76. You will know when it starts because the court will tell you. The court decides when you start your community work.

If your sentence is more than 100 hours, you must do at least 100 hours every 6 months until you finish. This means you will do a certain amount of work in each 6-month period.

When you do community work, it counts for all the community work sentences you are serving at the same time.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Community-based sentences: Community work

58Length of sentence of community work

  1. If the court imposes a sentence of community work of 100 hours or less, that sentence must be served within 6 months of the date that it commences under section 75, 75A, or 76.

  2. If the court imposes a sentence of community work of more than 100 hours, the offender must serve at least 100 hours in every 6-month period from the date on which the sentence commences until the number of hours imposed under the sentence has been served.

  3. Any work done by an offender under a sentence of community work must be treated as having been done under that sentence and under any and each other concurrent sentence of community work that the offender was subject to at the time that the work was done.

Notes
  • Section 58: replaced, on , by section 29 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).