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← Probation of Offenders Act 1951

Probation of Offenders Act 1951 s 2

s 2 Interpretation

2. In this Act —“approved institution” means an institution approved under section 12; “Chief Probation Officer” means the person appointed to be the Chief Probation Officer under section 3; “community service officer” means any officer appointed as a community service officer under section 346(9)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010; “court” does not include a court martial; “police officer” has the same meaning as in the Police Force Act 2004; “prison officer” has the same meaning as in the Prisons Act 1933 and includes the Commissioner of Prisons and a Superintendent of Prisons appointed under that Act; “probation committee” means a group of persons appointed to carry out the duties under section 4; “probation officer” means a person appointed to be a probation officer under section 3; “probation order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5; “probation period” means the period for which a probationer is placed under supervision by a probation order; “probationer” means a person for the time being under supervision by virtue of a probation order; “volunteer probation officer” means a person appointed to be a volunteer probation officer under section 3(2); and references to any court by which a probation order or an order for conditional discharge was made shall include where that court no longer exists references to a court exercising the same jurisdiction as the court by which the order was made. [15/2010; 1/2014]

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