Sentencing Act 2002

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

61: Probation officer must determine placement of offender for community work

You could also call this:

"Probation officer chooses where you do community work"

When you get a sentence of community work, a probation officer must decide where you will do the work. The probation officer makes this decision based on what is said in sections 62 and 63. They decide whether you will do the community work at a community work centre, with another agency, or at both.

The probation officer can choose to have you do some hours at a community work centre and some hours with another agency. They get to decide how many hours you do at each place. This decision can be made at the start of your sentence or at any other time while you are serving your sentence.

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60: Offender must notify probation officer if offender changes residential address, or

"Tell your probation officer if you move to a new house while doing community work."

62: Guidance to probation officer in determining placement of offender for community work, or

"Helping decide where someone does community work"

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

61Probation officer must determine placement of offender for community work

As soon as practicable after a sentence of community work is imposed, and at any other time during the sentence if the probation officer thinks fit, a probation officer must determine in accordance with sections 62 and 63 whether the community work will be done—
on placement at a community work centre; or
on placement with another agency; or
on placement at a community work centre for a certain number of the hours of work and on placement with another agency for a certain number of the hours of work, as specified by the probation officer.