PART XISentencing
Community service by offenders
245Community service orders: rules, annual report and interpretation
1
The Secretary of State may make rules for regulating the performance of work under community service orders or probation orders which include a requirement that the offender shall perform unpaid work.
2
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, rules under this section may—
a
limit the number of hours' work to be done by a person under such an order on any one day;
b
make provision as to the reckoning of time worked under such orders;
c
make provision for the payment of travelling and other expenses in connection with the performance of work under such orders;
d
provide for records to be kept of the work done by any person under such an order.
3
Rules under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
4
The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament each year, or incorporate in annual reports he already makes, a report of the working of community service orders.
5
In sections 238 to 243 of this Act, “the appropriate court” means—
a
where the relevant community service order has been made by the High Court, the High Court;
b
in any other case, the court having jurisdiction in the locality for the time being specified in the order under section 238(8)(a) of this Act, being a sheriff or district court according to whether the order has been made by a sheriff or a district court, but in a case where the order has been made by a district court and there is no district court in that locality, the sheriff court.