Offenders (Probation and Community Service) Act · s 3

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s 3Appointment of Chief Probation Officer etc.

(1)

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.

(2)

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.

(3)

All persons appointed under this section shall be deemed to be public servants for the purposes of the Penal Code (Chapter 22).

(4)

Notification of all appointments under this section shall be published in the Gazette.

(5)

In subsection (2), “prison officer” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Prisons Act (Chapter 51).

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