Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998) > VI. Community Corrections > 52. Conditions relating to community corrections

When community corrections are ordered, a court, the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board, the National Commissioner or other body which has the statutory authority to do so, may, subject to the limitations contemplated in subsection (2) and the qualifications of this Chapter, stipulate that the person concerned-

a)	is placed under house detention;

b)	does community service in order to facilitate restoration of the relationship between the sentenced offenders and the community;

c)	seeks employment;

d)	where possible takes up and remains in employment;

e)	pays compensation or damages to victims;

f)	takes part in treatment, development and support programmes;

g)	participates in mediation between victim and offender or in family group conferencing;

h)	contributes financially towards the cost of the community corrections to which he or she has been subjected;

i)	is restricted to one or more magisterial districts;

j)	lives at a fixed address;

k)	refrains from using alcohol or illegal drugs;

l)	refrains from committing a criminal offence;

m)	refrains from visiting a particular place;

n)	refrains from making contact with a particular person or persons;

o)	refrains from threatening a particular person or persons by word or action;

p)	is subject to monitoring;

q)	in the case of a child, is subject to the additional conditions as contained in section 69; or

r)	is subject to such other conditions as may be appropriate in the circumstances.

2)	These conditions may be stipulated concurrently but-

a)	parole granted in terms of section 73 may not include the condition of compensation referred to in subsection (1)(e) unless compensation was part of the original sentence of the court;

b)	supervision by a correctional official imposed in terms of sections 62(f) or 71 of the Criminal Procedure Act, may not include the conditions referred to in subsection (1)(b) to (h);

c)	day parole granted in terms of section 54 may not include the conditions referred to in subsection (1)(a) or the conditions of compensation referred to in subsection (1)(e) unless payment of compensation was part of the original sentence of the court; and

d)	temporary leave granted in terms of section 44 may not include the conditions referred to in subsection (1)(b) to (g).

Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)