Sentencing Act 2002

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

69A: Extension during epidemic of period within which community work must be done

You could also call this:

"More time to do community work during an epidemic"

If you are doing community work as part of your sentence, you usually have to finish it within a certain time. While an epidemic management notice is in force, the chief executive of the Department of Corrections can let probation officers extend the time you have to finish your community work by up to 12 months. This means you might have more time to complete your community work if there is an epidemic.

The chief executive can decide to extend the time for all offenders or just for certain types of offenders. You can find more information about the laws that allow the chief executive to make this decision in the Sentencing Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 and the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007.

This extension is not something you can demand, it is up to the chief executive and the probation officers to decide if you can have more time to finish your community work.

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69: Extension of period within which community work must be done, or

"Getting more time to finish community work if you need it"

69B: Sentence of community detention, or

"Community detention: staying at home as punishment for a crime"

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

69AExtension during epidemic of period within which community work must be done

While an epidemic management notice is in force, the chief executive of the Department of Corrections may authorise probation officers to extend by not more than 12 months the total period during which the community work of offenders, or the community work of offenders of any kind or description, must be done.
This section does not give any offender a right to an extension.

Notes

Section 69A: inserted, on 19 December 2006, by section 7 of the Sentencing Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 89).
Section 69A(1): amended, on 1 October 2007, by section 32 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).