LAW OF UKRAINE

of February 5, 2015 No. 160-VIII

About probation

Section I General provisions

Article 1. Law coverage

1. This Law determines the purposes, tasks, the bases, probation types, legal status of personnel of body of probation and subjects of probation.

Article 2. Determination of terms

1. In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) the volunteer of probation - the physical person which reached eighteen-year age, authorized by body of probation and the volunteer organization on accomplishment of the separate tasks connected from probation on voluntary and non-paid basis;

2) the pre-judicial report - the written information for court characterizing the person accused;

3) supervision - the actions performed by body of probation at the place of residence, works and studies of the obligations condemned for the purpose of observance determined by the law and assigned to them by court;

4) body of probation - the central executive body realizing state policy in the field of probation;

5) personnel of body of probation - workers who according to the powers determined by this Law and other laws of Ukraine perform probation tasks;

6) probation - system of the supervising and social and educational measures applied by a court decision and according to the law to convicts, accomplishment of certain types of the criminal penalties which are not connected with imprisonment and providing court with information characterizing the person accused;

7) the program about probation - the program which is appointed by a court decision to the supervision sentenced to probation or to person to person dismissed from serving sentence with testing and provides complex of the actions directed to correction of social behavior or its separate manifestations, forming of socially favorable changes of the personality which can be checked objectively;

8) subjects of probation convicts to which by a court decision and according to the law supervising, social and educational measures, convicts are applied to mulctary punishment and persons accused concerning whom body of probation the pre-judicial report prepares.

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