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Sentencing Act 2002

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

66D: When hours of community work not counted

You could also call this:

"When community work hours don't count because you didn't do them properly"

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If you do not do your community work to the satisfaction of your probation officer, they can refuse to count those hours. They can only refuse up to 10% of your total community work hours. This means that if you were sentenced to 100 hours of community work, your probation officer can refuse up to 10 of those hours.

If you fail to do your community work properly, your probation officer decides what happens next. They follow rules to make this decision, which includes a limit on the hours they can refuse. The probation officer's decision is based on your performance and the rules they must follow.

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

66DWhen hours of community work not counted

  1. If an offender fails to carry out any work under a sentence of community work to the satisfaction of the probation officer, the probation officer may, subject to subsection (2), refuse to treat that work as work undertaken under the sentence.

  2. The number of hours that the probation officer may refuse to treat as work undertaken under the sentence must not exceed 10% of the total number of hours under the sentence.

Notes
  • Section 66D: inserted, on , by section 31 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).