s.2Definitions and Interpretation
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Section 2Part 1 — Preliminary

Definitions and Interpretation

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In this Law —
"approved drug treatment centre" means any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, declared to be a drug treatment centre by the Cabinet under section 9;
"approved treatment provider" means — (a) the department of Government responsible for Drug Counselling Services; or (b) an individual or organisation approved by the Cabinet to carry out prescribed treatment programmes for the purposes of this Law;
"Chief Clerk" means the person appointed, under section 7 of the Grand Court Law (2015 Revision), as Clerk of the Grand Court;
"drug" includes alcohol and any controlled drug specified in the Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Law (2014 Revision);
"Drug Court" means — (a) the sitting of a summary court declared to be a Drug Rehabilitation Court pursuant to section 3(1); or (b) the sitting of the Grand Court declared to be a Drug Rehabilitation Court pursuant to section 3(2), as the case may be;
"drug offender" means a person who is referred to the Drug Court under section 4(3), 10 or 11;
"Duty Counsel" means the person appointed under section 7(3);
"eligible person" means a person described in section 8;
"Judge" means a Judge of the Grand Court;
"magistrate" means a person appointed or acting under section 6 of the Summary Jurisdiction Law (2015 Revision);
"prescribed treatment programme" means a programme for treatment and supervision ordered by the Drug Court pursuant to section 13;
"prison" means any place prescribed under the Prisons Law, 1975 [Law 14 of 1975] for the confinement of prisoners;
"prisoner" has the meaning assigned to that expression in the Prisons Law 1975;
"probation officer" means a person appointed to be a probation officer under the provisions of the Alternative Sentencing Law (2008 Revision) or any Law repealing and replacing those provisions;
"regular sitting" means — (a) a sitting of the summary court, other than the Drug Court; or (b) a sitting of the Grand Court, other than the Drug Court, as the case may be;
"regulations" means regulations made by the Cabinet under section 29;
"relevant offence" means — (a) any offence triable summarily (other than an offence of possession with intent to supply a drug listed in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Law (2014 Revision) where the offender was not also a consumer of the drug to which the offence relates); (b) any offence of theft, handling stolen goods, robbery or burglary triable upon indictment under the Penal Code (2013 Revision); or (c) any scheduled offence, but "relevant offence" does not include an offence involving violent conduct or sexual assault;
"rules" means rules made by the Chief Justice under section 28;
"scheduled offence" means an offence specified in the Schedule;
"specified conditions" has the meaning assigned to that expression in section 13(2)(b); and
"summary court" means a court of summary jurisdiction constituted under the Summary Jurisdiction Law (2015 Revision).
Any reference in this Law to the Director of Public Prosecutions includes a reference to any attorney-at-law in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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