Criminal Code Warning: this is not an official translation. Under all circumstances the original text in Dutch language of the Criminal Code (Wetboek van Strafrecht) prevails

Section 22c 
1.  Community service shall consist of an unpaid work requirement. The judgment or the punishment 
order shall state the number of working hours to be performed for completion of the punishment. 
The judgment or the punishment order may state the nature of the work to be performed. 
2.  Community service may be imposed for a maximum of two hundred and forty hours. 
3.  The period of time within which community service has to be completed shall amount to one year 
after the judgment has become final, or six months after the punishment order has become final. 
The Public Prosecution Service may, ex officio or on application of the convicted offender, extend 
these periods one time by the same period of time. It shall notify this extension to the convicted 
offender as soon as possible. 
4.  The period within which community service has to be completed shall be extended by the period 
during which the convicted offender is deprived of his liberty by law or is absent without leave.