Queensland Consolidated Acts

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 105

105 Community service order to be explained

(1) Before making the community service order, the court must explain, or cause to be explained, to the offender—

(a) the purpose and effect of the order; and

(b) what may follow if the offender contravenes the requirements of the order; and

(c) that the order may be amended or revoked on application of the offender, an authorised corrective services officer or the director of public prosecutions.

(2) The explanation must be made in language or in a way likely to be readily understood by the offender.