Criminal Justice (Community Service Orders) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2008
AI-assisted research summary: This amendment law changes the community service order rules, including the hour threshold and time allowed to complete the work, and it starts 7 days after registration.
Criminal Justice (Community Service Orders) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2008 Arrangement Article 1 Interpretation . 9 2 Article 4 amended . 9 3 Article 5 amended . 9 4 Article 8 amended . 10 5 Citation, commencement and application . 10 Criminal Justice (Community Service Orders) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2008 A LAW to amend further the Criminal Justice (Community Service Orders) (Jersey) Law 2001 Adopted by the States 26th September 2007 Sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council 12th December 2007 Registered by the Royal Court 4th January 2008 THE STATES , subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law – 1 Interpretation In this Law “principal Law” means the Criminal Justice (Community Service Orders) (Jersey) Law 2001 [1] . 2 Article 4 amended In Article 4(2)(b) of the principal Law, for the amount “240” there shall be substituted the amount “480”. 3 Article 5 amended For Article 5(2) of the principal Law there shall be substituted the following paragraph – “(2) Subject to Article 6(1), the work required to be performed under a community service order shall be performed – (a) where the number of hours specified in the order is 240 or less, during the period of 12 months beginning with the date of the order; (b) where the number of hours specified in the order is more than 240, during the period of 24 months beginning with the date of the order.”. 4 Article 8 amended In Article 8 of the principal Law – (a) in paragraph (1) the words “Subject to paragraph (3),” shall be deleted; (b) in paragraph (3) for the word “shall” there shall be substituted the word “may”. 5 Citation, commencement and application (1) This Law may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Community Service Orders) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2008 and shall come into force 7 days after it is registered. (2) Nothing is to be taken to prevent or limit the application of this Law to a person who commits an offence, or is sentenced to a community service order, before this Law comes into force. l.-m. hart Assistant Greffier of the States [1] chapter 08.180