Probation Act (Cap. 446), article 2

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires - "combination order" has the meaning assigned to it by article 1 8; "certificate" means the form, as contained in Annex I to the Framework Decision, purporting to reproduce details setting out the information required by the same form; "community sanction" means a probation order, a community service order or a combination order as specified in this Act; "community service officer" is a probation officer who supervises community service orders; "community service order" has the meaning assigned to it by article 11; "convicted of an offence" includes convictions by the Court of Criminal Appeal and the affirmation by the said court of a conviction by the court of first instance or of a finding of gu ilt by a jury; "Department" means the Department of Probation Services; "Director" means the Director of Probation Services; "executing State" means the Member S tate to which a community sanction has been transmitted for the purpose of execution; "Framework Decision" means Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA of 27 November 2008, as amended by Council Framework Decision 2009/299/JHA of 26 February 2009, on the application of the principal of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions with a view to the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions; "institution" means an institution approved by the Minister; "issuing State" means the Member State in which the judgment is delivered; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for the probation services; "pre-sentencing report" means a written report prepared by the Department at the request of the court prior to the imposition of sentence; 2 [CAP. 446. PROBATION "probation officer" means a person appointed to be a probation officer under this Act; "probation order" has the meaning assigned to it by article 7; "probation period" means the period for which a probationer is placed, under supervision by a probation order, under a communi ty service order or a combination order; "probationer" means a person for the time being sentenced by virtue of a probation order, a community service order or a combination order; "scheduled conduct" is a conduct in the list of conduct set out in the Schedule. Duties of Director of Probation Services. Amended by: VI. 2001.3.