LEGAL WORD
Community service
Legal term · Criminal law
Community service
- Type: Legal term
- Area of law: Criminal law
1 What it means
A new punishment under the BNS for certain minor offences, requiring unpaid work for the community.
2 Use it in a sentence
The BNS introduced community service for petty theft in some cases.
3 Make it stick
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