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Sentencing Act 2002

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

66C: Consequences of failing without excuse to complete training

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"What happens if you don't finish your training without a good reason"

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If you fail to complete the training in basic work and living skills without a good reason, you will face consequences. You will not get credit for the hours you spent in training as part of your community work sentence. You will have to do the total number of community work hours ordered, in addition to the time you spent in training, as long as it follows the rules in section 67.

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Community-based sentences: Community work

66CConsequences of failing without excuse to complete training

  1. If an offender fails, without reasonable excuse, to complete the number of hours training in basic work and living skills directed under section 66A,—

  2. any hours spent by the offender undertaking that training are not to be treated as hours of authorised community work undertaken by the offender under his or her sentence:
    1. the offender must, in addition to the period spent in training, but subject to section 67, undertake community work for the total number of hours ordered under the sentence.

      Notes
      • Section 66C: inserted, on , by section 31 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
      • Section 66C: amended, on , by section 24 of the Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Act 2013 (2013 No 88).