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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-orders-rules-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-orders-rules-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Service Orders Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-orders-rules-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules regulate the performance of work under community service orders and the arrangements for persons to perform such work. Rule 2 requires the arrangements made for community service work to include the provision of information for those required to perform it; and rule 3 requires those arrangements to make provision for certain kinds of work. Rule 4 requires work under a community service order normally to be commenced soon after the making of the order. Rules 5, 6 and 7 make provision as to the reckoning of time worked under such an order. Rule 8 establishes procedures to ensure the satisfactory performance of work. Rule 9 provides for the maintenance of records of work performed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/191/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:50:09.479798+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}