What limits does this provision place on how long a protective disposition may run, and on the hours of community service or attendance order?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
The exercise material carries the copy of the decision imposing the protective disposition and the written request behind it, so one can see which item of the disposition provision was applied and for how long. Any record of hours actually performed under the community service or attendance order item matters, because the cap on that item is counted in hours rather than in time.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the caps as absolute and item by item: of the protective dispositions listed in the disposition provision, those falling under the items the provision names may not exceed the period the provision sets, while the community service and attendance order item is capped in hours, with each of those two measures limited separately on its own terms.
Another reading notes that the provision only sets ceilings and says nothing about when the period begins to run, whether a modified or extended disposition counts toward the same ceiling, or whether separate dispositions in one file add together, so the text alone does not fix the total a file accumulates.
Your judgment
If a disposition was modified part way through, how should the papers in the file show the time already counted toward the ceiling the provision sets?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We revisit this card if the provision is amended to change the period or the hours it sets, or if a decision determines when the period begins to run or whether ceilings are counted separately or together.