Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The director-general may apply to the Magistrates Court for an order requiring a fine defaulter to perform voluntary community work to discharge an outstanding fine (a voluntary community work order ).
(2) The court may make a voluntary community work order for a fine defaulter if—
(a) the fine defaulter agrees to undertake voluntary community work under the order; and
(b) if the outstanding fine for which the fine defaulter is liable is or includes an amount payable under a reparation order under the Crimes (Sentencing) Act 2005
—the entity in whose favour the reparation order was made consents to the reparation order being discharged by a voluntary community work order; and
(c) the court is of the opinion that—
(i) it would not be appropriate to make a fine enforcement order; and
(ii) the fine defaulter is likely to comply with a voluntary community work order; and
(d) the fine defaulter has not been convicted of a personal violence offence.
(3) The court may inform itself in any way it considers appropriate about a matter mentioned in subsection (2).
(4) The order must state the number of hours the fine defaulter must work to discharge the outstanding fine.
Note The number of hours is to be worked out at the rate of 1 hour for each $37.50 of the outstanding fine (see s 116ZG).
(5) In this section:
"personal violence offence"—see section 216A (5).