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Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act 1983
Persons to whom Act applies.
2.—F6[(1) ]This Act applies to a person (in this Act referred to as an “offender”) who is of or over the age of 16 years and is convicted of an offence for which, in the opinion of the court, the appropriate sentence would but for this Act be one F7[…] of imprisonment or of detention F8[…] F9[, in any children detention centre designated under section 150 of the Children Act, 2001, or in a children detention school], but does not apply where any such sentence is fixed by law.
F10[(2) This Act also applies to a person (in this Act also referred to as an "offender") who—
(a) has attained the age of 16 years, and
(b) stands convicted of an offence in respect of which the court has imposed a fine that the offender has failed to pay by the due date for payment.
(3) In this section "due date for payment", in relation to a fine, has the same meaning as in the Act of 2014.]
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Amendments:
F6
Inserted (1.01.2016) by Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014 (7/2014), s. 19(2), S.I. No. 6 of 2016.
F7
Repealed (22.07.1997) by Criminal Law Act 1997 (14/1997), s. 16 and sch. 3, in operation as per s. 1.
F8
Deleted (7.04.2017) by Prisons Act 2015 (57/2015), s. 13(a), S.I. No. 134 of 2017.
F9
Inserted (23.07.2001) by Children Act 2001 (24/2001), s. 154, S.I. No. 524 of 2007.
F10
Inserted (11.01.2016) by Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014 (7/2014), s. 19(1)(b), S.I. No. 6 of 2016.
Editorial Notes:
E3
Previous affecting provision: subss. (2), (3) inserted by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), s. 18(1)(b), not commenced; repealed (11.01.2016) by Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014 (7/2014), s. 4(c), S.I No. 6 of 2016.