Cap. 516 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 9 Cap. 496.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: "conflict of interest" means a situation in which any member of any Board or Committee, established under this Act, has a private or personal interest sufficient to influence or appear to influence the objective exercise of his functions; "Director" means the Director responsible for the Probation Services; "Liaison Officer" means the person appointed under article 26(2); "mediator" means a neutral, qualified and impartial person appointed to conduct victim-offender mediation proceedings; "mediation report" means a written report prepared by the mediator during victim-offender mediation proceedings; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for the Department of Correctional Services; "offender" means a convicted person or a person who has formally admitted to the commission of a criminal offence in accordance with article 453 of the Criminal Code, as the case may be; "Offender Assessment Board" means the Board established under article 3; "parole" means the authorisation granted by the Parole Board to a prisoner serving one or more sentences of imprisonment to be released on parole, during a part of his term of imprisonment upon reaching the parole eligibility date, under the supervision of the parole officer and subject to the parole conditions as may be specified in the parole licence; "parolee" means a prisoner who has been granted parole by the Parole Board and to whom a parole licence has been issued to that effect;

*see article 1(2) of the Act as originally enacted, and Legal Notice 43 of 2012. "Parole Board" means the Board established under article 8;

"Parole Clerk" means the person appointed under article 7; "parole decision" means a decision taken by the Parole Board to grant or refuse parole to a prisoner following his application to be released on parole;

"parole eligibility date" means the date on which a prisoner becomes eligible to be released on parole subject to the Parole Board’s decision; "parole licence" means a licence issued under article 15;

"parole officer" means a person appointed under article 18; "parole period" means the period specified in the parole licence during which a parolee is placed under the supervision of a parole officer by means of a parole licence;

"Parole Unit" means the Unit established under article 5; "public authority" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in article 2 of the Freedom of Information Act; "Remission Board" means the Board established under article 20; "reparation agreement" means the agreement which may be reached by virtue of article 41; "Secondary Assessment Report" means the report referred to in article 4; "victim" means an identified, natural person who has suffered physical and, or psychological and, or material damages, directly caused by the offender’s criminal acts and, or omissions or a representative of society in the case where a victim cannot be identified; "victim-offender mediation" means the procedure established in Part VI; "Victim Support Unit" means the Unit established under article 26(1).