Section 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); andreferences 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.