Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“approved institution” means any place declared as such under section 17;

“Chief Probation Officer” means the person appointed as such under section 3;

“community service order” means an order made under section 13(1);

“court” does not include a court-martial;

“Minister” means the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports;

“probation committee” means any committee appointed under section 4;

“probationer” means an offender in respect of whom a probation order is made;

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“probation officer”, except in Part III, means a person appointed as such under section 3(1), and includes the Chief Probation

Officer;

“probation order” means a probation order made under section 5(1);

“probation period” means the period within which a probationer is placed under supervision by virtue of a probation order;

“volunteer probation officer”, except in Part III, means a person appointed as such under section 3(2).

References to any court by which a probation order or an order for conditional discharge is made shall include, where that court no longer exists, references to a court exercising the same jurisdiction as that court.