Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act, 1983

Provisions regarding more than one community service order.

5.—(1) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), where more than one community service order is in force in respect of an offender at any time, the total number of hours which the offender is required to work under such orders shall not exceed 240.

(2) Where a court makes community service orders in respect of two or more offences of which the offender has been convicted by or before the court, the court may direct that the hours of work specified in any of those orders shall be concurrent with or additional to those specified in any other of those orders.

(3) Where a court makes a community service order and there is in force in respect of the offender at the time of the making of that order another such order (whether made by the same or a different court) the court making the later order may direct in that order that the hours of work specified therein shall be concurrent with or additional to those specified in the earlier order.