Explanatory note

These Rules, which revoke the Community Service Order Rules 1989 (S.I.1989/191), make provision for the reckoning of hours worked under community service orders and combination orders (rules 3, 4 and 5) and the keeping of work records (rule 6)

Under rule 3, the offender’s relevant officer or supervisor can decide whether and, if so, to what extent time spent travelling in connection with work under the order can be reckoned as time spent working under it. Rule 4 repeats provision in rule 6 of the 1989 Rules. Under paragraph (1), an offender can be required to comply with directions as to the manner in which the work is performed and with rules of the work place. If the offender fails to do so, performs work unsatisfactorily, behaves in a disorderly or disruptive manner or reports late for work, paragraph (2) provides that all or some of the time spent working that day can be excluded from the time spent working under the order. Rule 5 deals with when bad weather prevents work. Rule 6 provides for a weekly record to be kept of an offender’s hours worked under an order and for a copy of this to be given to him.