Criminal Justice Act 1948

General.

5 Where the supervising court proposes to amend a probation order under this Schedule, otherwise than on the application of the probationer, it shall summon him to appear before the court; and if the probationer is not less than fourteen years of age, the court shall not amend a probation order unless the probationer expresses his willingness to comply with the requirements of the order as amended :

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to an order cancelling a requirement of the probation order or reducing the period of any requirement, or substituting a new petty sessional division for the division named in the probation order.

6 On the making of an order discharging or amending a probation order, the clerk to the court shall forthwith give copies of the discharging or amending order to the probation officer; and the probation officer shall give a copy to the probationer and to the person in charge of any institution in which the probationer is or was required by the order to reside:

Provided that if the order amends the probation order by substituting a new petty sessional division for the division named in the probation order the copies of the order shall be sent to the clerk to the justices for the new petty sessional division and he shall be responsible for giving copies of the order to the probation officer.

7 Subsection (7) of section three of this Act shall apply to any order made under this Schedule by virtue of which a probationer is required to reside in an institution as it applies to a probation order made under that section.