5.—(1) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), where more than one community service order is in force in respect of an offender at any time, the total number of hours which the offender is required to work under such orders shall not exceed 240.

(2) Where a court makes community service orders in respect of two or more offences of which the offender has been convicted by or before the court, the court may direct that the hours of work specified in any of those orders shall be concurrent with or additional to those specified in any other of those orders.

F20[(2A) The hours of work specified in a community service order under subsection (1A) (inserted by section 19 (1)(c)(i) of the Act of 2014) of section 3 shall be additional to any hours of work specified in any other community service order made in respect of the offender.

(2B) The court shall, for the purpose of determining the number of hours of work to specify in a community service order under subsection (1A) of section 3, take account of—

(a) any sum or sums paid by the offender concerned in satisfaction of part of the fine,

(b) any part of the fine, or any sum or sums from the proceeds of the sale of property of the offender sufficient to pay part only of that fine, recovered by a receiver, and

(c) any part of the fine recovered as a result of an attachment order made in respect of the earnings of the offender.]

(3) Where a court makes a community service order and there is in force in respect of the offender at the time of the making of that order another such order (whether made by the same or a different court) the court making the later order may direct in that order that the hours of work specified therein shall be concurrent with or additional to those specified in the earlier order.