Article 1

These Rules may be cited as the Community Service and Combination Orders Rules 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

In these Rules—

• “Community service order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 14(1) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973^f1;

• “offender” means a person in respect of whom an order is in force;

• “order” means a community service order or a combination order;

• “relevant officer” has the meaning assigned by section 14(4) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973^f2, and, for these purposes, the said section 14(4) shall apply in relation to a combination order as if it were a community service order; and

• “supervisor” means the person appointed to supervise the performance of work under an order at any particular time and who is responsible for ensuring that the work is satisfactorily performed.