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PROBATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)1950 - SECT 17

Interpretation.

17.(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions have the meaning hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to
say:

"child" means a person under the age of fourteen years;

Definition rep. by 1954 c.9 (NI) s.29 sch.7

"enactment" includes any provision in any Act of the Parliament of Northern
Ireland or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, whether public general,
local or private, and any provision in any order in council, order, regulation
or other instrument having effect by virtue of any such Act;

"the Ministry" has the meaning assigned to it by sub-section (7) of section
one of this Act;

"order for conditional discharge" has the meaning assigned to it by section
five of this Act;

"period of conditional discharge" has the meaning assigned to it by section
five of this Act;

"prescribed" means prescribed by rules or regulations made under this Act;

"probation order" has the meaning assigned to it by section one of this Act;

"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;

Definitions rep. by SLR 1976

"supervising court" means, in relation to a probation order, a court of
summary jurisdiction acting for the petty sessions district for the time being
named in the order; and, where the probationer was a child or young person
when the probation order was made, means a juvenile court for that district;

"young person" means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years and
is under the age of seventeen years.

(2) Where the age of any person at any time is material for the purposes of
any provision of this Act his age at the material time shall be deemed to be
or to have been that which appears to the court after considering any
available evidence to be or to have been his age at that time.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, except sub-section (6) of section one
thereof, where a probation order or an order for conditional discharge has
been made on appeal, the order shall be deemed to have been made by the court
from which the appeal was brought.

(4) Where any provision of this Act empowers a court on conviction of an
offender to pass a sentence or make an order in lieu of dealing with him in
any other manner, that provision shall not be construed as taking away any
power of the court to order the offender to pay costs, damages or
compensation.

Subs.(5) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

S.18 rep. by SLR 1976. Ss.19, 20 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954


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