Former federal parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper must complete 300 hours of community service after being sentenced for misusing his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries in 2010.

He was also handed a two-year good behaviour bond and must pay back $954.

Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker told the court a non-conviction order was not appropriate in this case.

Slipper was found guilty of three dishonesty charges in July for misusing his Cabcharge allowance on three occasions in 2010 before he was appointed speaker.

The total bill for the three trips to wineries in Canberra and surrounding NSW was $954.

On the first occasion in January 2010, Slipper visited up to six premises including the prestigious Poachers Pantry and Clonakilla wineries.

A hire car driver gave evidence that he drove Slipper and another man to several wineries and at the end, Slipper asked him if they could split the payment up into four amounts “because it would make processing easier”.

The court also heard evidence from a second hire car driver who drove Slipper to wineries on two other occasions.

In July, Chief Magistrate Walker found Slipper falsely recorded the travel he took on those three days and that he gave a disingenuous description of the trips.

The maximum penalty the court could impose was 12 months’ imprisonment or a fine of $6,600, or both, for each offence.