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Sentencing Act 2002

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

63: Authorised work for person sentenced to community work

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"Types of jobs you can do if you're sentenced to community work"

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If you are sentenced to community work, you may be required to do work at certain places. This can include hospitals, churches, charities, schools, or marae. You can also do work at institutions that help old, infirm, or disabled people.

You can do community work on land owned by the government or a public body. You can also do work for a local authority, which is an organisation that is responsible for providing services to a local community, as defined in the Local Government Act 2002. However, you cannot do work that would take someone's job, if that person would normally be paid to do that work.

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

63Authorised work for person sentenced to community work

  1. The type of work that an offender may be required to perform for the purposes of a sentence of community work is work—

  2. at or for any hospital or church or at or for any charitable, educational, cultural, or recreational institution or organisation (including a marae); or
    1. at or for any other institution or organisation for old, infirm, or disabled persons, or at the home of any old, infirm, or disabled person; or
      1. on any land of which the Crown or any public body is the owner or lessee or occupier, or any land that is administered by the Crown or any public body; or
        1. at or for any local authority (within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2002).

          1. No offender may be directed for the purposes of a sentence of community work to do any work if, in doing so, the offender would take the place of any person who would otherwise be employed in doing that work in the ordinary course of that person's paid employment.

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          Notes
          • Section 63(1)(c): amended, on , by section 30 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
          • Section 63(1)(d): inserted, on , by section 30 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).