New Zealand Acts

SENTENCING ACT 2002 - SECT 63

63 Authorised work for person sentenced to community work

1 The type of work that an offender may be required to perform for the purposes of a sentence of community work is work—

a) at or for any hospital or church or at or for any charitable, educational, cultural, or recreational institution or organisation (including a marae); or

b) at or for any other institution or organisation for old, infirm, or disabled persons, or at the home of any old, infirm, or disabled person; or

c) on any land of which the Crown or any public body is the owner or lessee or occupier, or any land that is administered by the Crown or any public body; or

d) at or for any local authority (within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2002 ).

2 No offender may be directed for the purposes of a sentence of community work to do any work if, in doing so, the offender would take the place of any person who would otherwise be employed in doing that work in the ordinary course of that person's paid employment.

Note: 1985 No 120 s 60

History: Section 63(1)(c): amended, on 1 October 2007, by section 30 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).   Section 63(1)(d): inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 30 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).