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Application to Scotland.
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8. This Act shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following modifications:—
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(1) There may be appointed as probation officers for a district being a royal, parliamentary, or police burgh, or a county outwith the police boundaries of any such burgh, such persons as the burgh magistrates may determine for the burgh and the sheriff for the county; and a probation officer when acting under a probation order shall be subject to the control of the burgh police court or sheriff court, as the case may be:
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(2) The immediately preceding subsection shall be substituted for subsection one of section three of this Act, and references in this Act to a petty sessional division shall be construed as references to a district:
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(3) The expression “court of summary jurisdiction” where occurring in section three of this Act shall include the sheriff sitting with a jury:
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(4) “Bond” shall be substituted for “recognizance,” the “Secretary for Scotland” shall be substituted for “the Secretary of State,” and “the High Court of Justiciary” shall be substituted for “a court of assize or a court of quarter sessions”:
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(5) The authority having power to regulate the remuneration of probation officers shall be the town council in a burgh and the county council in a county, and such remuneration shall be paid out of the burgh general or police assessment or the county general assessment, as the case may be.
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