(1)  A court that makes a community correction order in relation to an offender must specify the period during which the offender must comply with the order (the operational period ).

(2)  The operational period of a community correction order may not be specified to be more than 3 years.

(3)  A court must not specify, when making or varying a community correction order, an operational period, the effect of which would be that the total consecutive operational periods of all the community correction orders in relation to the offender would be more than 3 years.

(4)  A community correction order remains in force until –

(a) the operational period expires; or

(b) the order is cancelled under this Act –

whichever occurs first.