Act · 2012 Revised Edition · 4 parts
Offenders (Probation and Community Service) Act
Probation and community service for offendersPart I
Preliminary
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
s 1Citation
This Act may be cited as the Offenders (Probation and Community
Service) Act.
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.
The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, appoint a Chief Probation Officer and such number of probation officers as he may consider necessary for the purposes of this
Act.
The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, appoint any person, not being a police officer or in a prison officer, on such conditions as he thinks fit to be a volunteer probation officer.
All persons appointed under this section shall be deemed to be public servants for the purposes of the Penal Code (Chapter 22).
Notification of all appointments under this section shall be published in the Gazette.
In subsection (2), “prison officer” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Prisons Act (Chapter 51).
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s 4Probation committees
The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and
Yang Di-Pertuan, appoint a probation committee or committees consisting of such persons as he thinks fit, who shall review the work of probation officers and volunteer probation officers in individual cases, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.
Part II
Probation Orders and Discharge
Part III
Community Service Orders
Part IV