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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 106 Community service orders

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 106

Community service orders

(1)     A community service order in relation to a young person must state—

        (a)     the number of occasions on which the young person is to report for community service or that the young person is to report on the number of occasions in each week that the chief executive from time to time specifies; and

        (b)     the total number of hours of community service, being 8 or a multiple of 8, the young person will be required to perform to comply with the order; and

        (c)     the period of time during which the community service is required to be performed, being a period not longer than 1 year; and

        (d)     the day and time when the young person is to report on the first occasion.

(2)     A young person may not be required to perform more than 208 hours of community service.

(3)     A community service order in relation to a young person may contain such recommendations with respect to the young person's attendance as the court decides.

(4)     The length of each period during which the young person is to perform community service is as decided by the chief executive.

(5)     All the periods of community service need not be the same length but the total periods in a week may not be longer than 60 hours.

(6)     Having regard to the general directions given by the court, the chief executive must decide the days on which and the times at which the young person is required to report for community service after the first occasion.

(7)     The days on which and the times at which the young person is required to report for community service, and the period during which he or she is to perform community service, should not interfere with the education or training of the young person or with a genuine religious observance by the young person.

(8)     The chief executive may, for good cause, excuse a young person from reporting for and performing community service on a particular occasion or on all occasions in a particular week.