Community Service by Offenders (Scotland) Act 1978

2 Further provisions about community service orders

(1) A community service order shall—

(a) specify the locality in which the offender resides or will be residing when the order comes into force;

(b) require the local authority in whose area the locality specified under paragraph (a) above is situated to appoint or assign an officer (referred to in this Act as " the local authority officer") who will discharge the functions assigned to him by this Act; and

(c) state the number of hours of work which the offender is required to perform.

(2) Where, whether on the same occasion or on separate occasions, an offender is made subject to more than one community service order, or to both a community service order and a probation order which includes a requirement that that offender shall perform any unpaid work, 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, but so that at no time shall the offender have an outstanding number of hours of work to perform in excess of the maximum provided for in section 1(1) of this Act.

(3) Upon making a community service order the court shall—

(a) give a copy of the order to the offender;

(b) send a copy of the order to the director of social work of the local authority in whose area the offender resides or will be residing when the order comes into force; and

(c) where it is not the appropriate court, send a copy of the order (together with such documents and information relating to the case as are considered useful) to the clerk of the appropriate court.