Section 66B — Sentencing Act 2002: Some hours of work may be converted to training

66B Some hours of work may be converted to training (1) If authorised by the Court under section 66A , a probation officer may, but is not obliged to, direct that a specified number of hours of work, not exceeding 20% of the total number of hours under the sentence, be instead spent in training in basic work and living skills. (2) A probation officer may not give a direction under subsection (1) unless— (a) it is reasonably practicable for the offender to undertake training in basic work and living skills (having regard to the availability of that training in the place where the offender lives); and (b) the offender consents to undertake that training. (3) Any hours spent by the offender training in basic work and living skills under a direction given under subsection (1) must, for all legal purposes, be treated as hours of authorised community work undertaken by the offender under his or her sentence. (4) Subsection (3) is subject to section 66C . Section 66B: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 31 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).