(1) A probation officer named in a supervision order may be,-
(a) any person appointed to be a probation officer by the State Government or a person authorized by them, or
(b) any person provided for this purpose by a society recognized in this behalf by the State Government, or
(c) in any exceptional case, any other person who, in the opinion of the court, is a fit person to act as a probation officer in the special circumstances of the case.
Explanation:- A probation officer may be a person of either sex.
(2) In naming a probation officer in a supervision order, the court shall be guided by any general or special instructions the State Government may issue in this behalf.
(3) A probation officer, in the exercise of his duties under any supervision order, shall be subject to the control of the District Magistrate of the district in which the offender for the time being resides.
(4) The court before which an offender is bound by his bond to appear for sentence when called upon, or the District Magistrate of the district in which the offender for the Provision as to bonds.
Appointment of Probation officers.
6 [Act No.III of 1937] time being resides, may at any time appoint another probation officer in the place of the person named in a supervision order.
4[Explanation:- For the purposes of this section, the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad shall be deemed to be a district and the Commissioner of City Police shall be deemed to be the District Magistrate of that district.]
10. A probation officer shall, subject to rules made under this Act and to the directions of the court,-
(a) visit or receive visits from the offender at such reasonable intervals as may be specified in the supervision order, or subject thereto, as the probation officer may think fit;
(b) see that he observes the conditions of the bond or bonds executed by him;
(c) report to the court as to his behaviour; and
(d) advise, assist and befriend him, and when necessary endeavour to find suitable employment for him.
11. The court before which any offender is bound by his bond under section 4 to appear for sentence when called upon,–
(a) may at any time if it appears, upon the application of the probation officer, that it is expedient that the bond or bonds executed by the offender should be varied, summon him, and if he fails to show cause why such variation should not be made, vary the bond or bonds by extending or
4. Explanation was added by section 3 of the Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh Extension of Laws Act, 1958 (Andhra Pradesh Act, XXIII of 1958).
Duties of probation officers.
Variation of conditions of probation and discharge of bonds executed by offender.
[Act No.III of 1937] 7 diminishing the duration thereof (so, however, that it shall not exceed three years from the date of the original order and shall not extend beyond the date on which, in the opinion of the court, the offender shall attain the age of twenty-five years), or by altering the conditions thereof or by inserting additional conditions therein, or
(b) may, on application made by the probation officer and on being satisfied that the conduct of the offender has been such as to make it unnecessary that he should be kept any longer under supervision, discharge the bond or bonds executed by him.