Community order requirements


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Practice notes

Community order requirements


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Practice notes
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Community orders鈥攁vailability

Community orders are provided for within sections 200鈥220 and Sch 9 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (SA 2020), also known as the Sentencing Code.

In the Sentencing Code, the term 鈥榗ommunity order鈥 is defined as meaning an order imposing one or more community order requirements (see below: Community order requirements).

A community order must impose at least one community order requirement for the purposes of punishment unless the court also imposes a fine or there are exceptional circumstances relating to the offence or to the offender which would make it unjust in all the circumstances for the court to impose a requirement for the purposes of punishment in the particular case, and would also make it unjust in all the circumstances for the court to impose a fine.

A community order must specify a date (end date) or dates by which all the requirements in it must have been complied with. Each requirement imposed may also have its own end date so long as none exceed the overall end date.

A community order cannot last for more

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