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Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act.
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2.— Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1), by—
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(a) the insertion of the following definitions:
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“ ‘assessment report’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 3;
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‘circuit of residence’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 6;
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‘Director of the Probation Service’ means the person appointed by the Minister to the post of Director of the Probation Service;
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‘probation officer’ means a person appointed by the Minister to be a probation officer;
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‘Probation Service’ means those officers of the Minister assigned to perform functions in the part of the Department of State for which the Minister is responsible commonly known by that name;”,
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(b) the deletion of the definition of “probation and welfare officer”, and
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(c) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “relevant officer”:
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“ ‘relevant officer’ means a person who has been assigned by the Director of the Probation Service to discharge functions under this Act and includes a probation officer discharging functions under this Act;”.
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