(1) Community service shall be a sentence passed for offences punishable with imprisonment of less than two years or with fine only. Such sentence shall be executed for the benefit of a public corporation, a private corporation charged with a public service mission or an association entrusted with performing a community service.
(2) The sentence provided under Sub-section (1) above shall be passed by the trial court in lieu of imprisonment or fine, after ruling on the plea of guilty with the prior consent of the accused person.
(3) The court shall fix the period of community service which shall not be less than two hundred hours or more than 240 (two hundred and forty) hours and shall not be suspended.
(4) Community service shall be free of charge.
(5) The judgment shall state the period of imprisonment that may be served by the offender in case of non-performance of community service; such a period of imprisonment shall not be suspended.
(6) Community service shall be laid down by a separate instrument.
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