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