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Sentencing Act 2002

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

65: Supervision of offender while doing community work

You could also call this:

"Someone in charge watches you while you do community work as part of your sentence."

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When you are doing community work at a community work centre, a probation officer is in charge of you. They control, direct, and supervise you while you are at the centre. They also supervise you when you are at another place they told you to go or gave you permission to go.

When you are travelling between the community work centre and another place, or between two other places, a probation officer is still in charge of you. If you are doing community work with an organisation other than a community work centre, a probation officer supervises you at all times while you are working or should be working. This supervision happens as long as you are doing your community work as part of your sentence.

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

65Supervision of offender while doing community work

  1. An offender who is directed to do community work on placement at a community work centre is subject to the control, direction, and supervision of a probation officer—

  2. while the offender is at a community work centre; and
    1. while the offender is at any other place at the direction, or with the permission, of a probation officer; and
      1. while the offender is travelling between a community work centre and any other place referred to in paragraph (b), or between any 2 such places.

        1. An offender who is directed to do community work on placement with an agency other than a community work centre is subject to the control, direction, and supervision of a probation officer at all times while the offender is doing work or is required to be doing work under the sentence.