Section Section 562
of the Code not to apply in certain areas.
Section 562 of the Code not to apply in certain areas.
THE PROBATION OF OFFENDERS ACT, 1958 AcT No. 20 OF 1958
[I6th May, 1958.] An Act to provide for the release of offenders on probation or after due admonition and for matters connected therewith: BE it enacted by Parliament in the Ninth Year of the Republic f India as follows: 1. Short title, extent and commencement: _ This Act may be called the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. (2) It extends to the whole of India I***_ (3) It shall come into force in a State on such date? as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different parts of the State. 2. Definitions: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires; "Code? means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898); (b) ""probation officer" means an officer appointed to be a probation officer O recognised as such under