“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;
“court” does not include a court martial;
“police officer” has the same meaning as in the Police Force Act [Cap. 235];
“prison officer” has the same meaning as in the Prisons Act [Cap. 247] and includes the Director 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); and
references 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.