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CRIMES (SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2005 - SECT 316

Meaning of community service work

    (1)     "Community service work" includes any of the following prescribed by regulation:

        (a)     work;

        (b)     community service programs.

Note     Power to make a statutory instrument (including a regulation) includes power to make different provision in relation to different matters or different classes of matters, and to make an instrument that applies differently by reference to stated exceptions or factors (see Legislation Act

, s 48).

    (2)     If an offender who is subject to a community service order attends a program for therapy or education in accordance with the directions of the director-general, the attendance at the program is taken to be community service work .

Note     The number of hours of attendance at a program for therapy or education which may count toward the performance of a community service condition is limited under—

        (a)     if the condition forms part of an intensive correction order— s 48A; or

        (b)     if the condition forms part of a good behaviour order— s 93A.



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