Commencement: 29 December 1989

REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

THE COURTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT) ACT
No. 34 OF 1989

Arrangement of Sections.

1. Insertion of new section 19A, in Joint Regulation No. 30 of 1980.
2. Commencement.

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REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

THE COURTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT) ACT
No. 34 OF 1989

ASSENT: 18/12/89
COMMENCEMENT: 29/12/89

BE IT ENACTED by the President and Parliament as follows:-

INSERTION OF NEW SECTION 19A, IN JOINT REGULATION No. 30 OF 1980

The following section is inserted after section 19 of the Courts Regulation No. 30 of 1980:-

"19A.	COMMUNITY WORK

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Regulation or of any other law to the contrary where a Magistrate's Court sentences a person to a term of imprisonment of two months or less the Court may as an alternative to such person undergoing imprisonment order such person to perform specified work or work of a specified kind for community purposes for a period of eight hours a day, six days a week in such manner and subject to such conditions as to supervision or otherwise as the Court may specify in the order.

(2) Any person undergoing community work who absents himself from such work without lawful excuse when he should be engaged thereat shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction before a Magistrate's Court be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one month."

COMMENCEMENT

2. This Act shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

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