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Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Youth justice - Community work order

298: Community work order

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"Helping the community as a punishment for doing something wrong"

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If you are a young person and you have done something wrong, the Youth Court can order you to do work to help the community. The court will decide how many hours you have to work, which can be between 20 and 200 hours. You will have to do the work within a certain time, which is up to 12 months.

You will have to do the work under the supervision of someone, such as the chief executive or another person or organisation that the chief executive has approved. The Youth Court will make sure that there is suitable work for you to do before they make you do it. The court wants to make sure you can actually do the work they are asking you to do.

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Part 4Youth justice
Community work order

298Community work order

  1. Subject to this section, where a charge against a young person is proved before the Youth Court, the court may order that the young person undertake work in the interests of the community for such number of hours, being not less than 20 nor more than 200, as the court may specify.

  2. The work required to be undertaken for the purposes of a community work order shall—

  3. be performed within such period not exceeding 12 months as the court shall specify:
    1. be performed under the supervision of—
      1. the chief executive; or
        1. any person or organisation (being a person or organisation approved by the chief executive either generally or in the particular case) who or which agrees to supervise the order.

        2. The Youth Court must not make a community work order unless it is satisfied that suitable work is available for the young person to perform for the purposes of the order.

        Compare
        • 1974 No 72 s 36(1)(ia)
        • 1977 No 126 s 10(2)
        Notes
        • Section 298(1): amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).
        • Section 298(1): amended, on , by section 31 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Youth Courts Jurisdiction and Orders) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 2).
        • Section 298(2)(b)(i): amended, on , by section 10 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Advocacy, Workforce, and Age Settings) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 98).
        • Section 298(2)(b)(ii): amended, on , by section 13 of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services Act 1999 (1999 No 82).
        • Section 298(3): amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).