ACT No. XXXVIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Probation Act, Cap. 446.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

25th November, 2014

ACT No. XXXVIII of 2014

AN ACT to amend the Probation Act, Cap. 446.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Probation (Amendment) Short title.

Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the

Probation Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

Sub-article (1) of article 21 of the principal Act shall be Amendment of

article 21 of the

amended as follows

principal Act.

(a)

for the words "the Court of Magistrates" there shall

be substituted the words "the Court of Magistrates, the Juvenile

Court, the Criminal Court or the Court of Criminal Appeal, as

the case may be,";

(b) for the words "of the community sanction, the court"

there shall be substituted the words "of the community sanction,

the competent court"; and

(c)

in the first proviso thereto, for the words "by the

Court of Magistrates, or by the Juvenile Court", there shall be

substituted the words "by the respective Court".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 202 of the

19th November, 2014.

Ċ ENSU G ALEA

Deputy Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives