Supplementary provision
3.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where (by operation of regulation 2) the reduction in the specified hours results in the number of hours allocated to other activity by the responsible officer under section 227K of the 1995 Act exceeding the limit on those hours specified in section 227K(2).
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the responsible officer must reduce the number of hours allocated to other activity in order to comply with the limit in section 227K(2).
(3) Where the number of hours of other activity already undertaken by the individual before these Regulations come into force means that the responsible officer cannot comply with paragraph (2)—
(a)the limit in section 227K(2) does not apply, and
(b)the responsible officer must allocate all hours of unpaid work or other activity yet to be completed by the individual to unpaid work.