Bill 25 (Legislature 14, Session 4)

L14 S4 1857

Alberta — Bills

No. 25 4th Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 10 Elizabeth II BILL 25 A Bill respecting/Probation Officers HON. MR. MANNING Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Maje-8ty. Edmonton, Alberta, 1962

Explanatory Note I.

Short title. 2. Administration of Act under Attorney General. 3. Appointment of Probation officers. 4. Status and powers of probation officers. 5. Duties of probation officers.

BILL No. 25 of 1962

An Act respecting Probation Officers (Assented to , 1962) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as followa: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Probation Officers Act". 2. The Attorney General is charged with the administra tion of this Act. 3. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint such probation officers as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act. 4.

(1) A probation officer appointed under this Act is a probation officer in and for the Province.

(2) A probation officer is an officer of every criminal court in the Province and shall carry out the directions of the judge, magistrate or justice of the peace presiding in any such court for which he is directed to act.

(3) A probation officer has, for the purposes of dis charging his duty as a probation officer, all the powers of a police constable. 5. A probation officer has the power and the duty with regard to any person convicted at a sitting of the Supreme Court or the district court for the trial of criminal cases, or at the court of a magistrate or justice of the peace or at the court if a juvenile or family court judge, (

a) to procure and report such information as to the antecedents, family history, previous convictions, character of employment and other information respecting an~· person so convicted as the court requires, (

b) to supervise under the direction of the court before whom such person was convicted, the employment, conduct and general conditions under which the person so convicted ma~· be placed during the period of probation imposed b~· the court.

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c) to see that any person so convicted reports from time to time as the court prescribes, and to report to the court if the person so convicted is or is not carrying out the terms on which sentence is suspended, and to see that such person, in case of default, is brought again before the court for sentence, (

d) to see that any person so convicted while on pro bation duly carries out any order of the court re quiring him to make due provision for the support of his wife and any other dependants for whom he may be liable, and (

e) to do all such other things as are directed by the court or by the regulations made under this Act. 6. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regula tions (

a) respecting the qualifications, duties and powers of probation officers, (

b) respecting the reports and returns to be made by probation officers, and (

c) respecting any matter necessary or advisable to carry out effectively the intent of this Act. 7. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assen ted to.

No. 25 FOURTH SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGI'SLA TURe 10 ELIZABETH II 1962 BILL

An Act respecting Probation Officers Received and read the First time ....................................... .. Second time Third time .................. . HON. MR. MANNING Title: 1962 (14th, 4th) Bill 25,

An Act respecting Probation Officers

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L14 S4 1857
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Language	en
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