Appointment of Probation Officers

(1) The Government or such other authority as may be empowered by them in this behalf, may appoint probation officers for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, it shall be the duty of the probation officer:- (a) to visit children in need of protection and juvenile offenders at such intervals as the probation officer may think fit; (b) to report to the competent authority on the behaviour of any child in need of protection or any juvenile offender; (c) to advise and assist children in need of protection or juvenile offenders and if necessary endeavour to find them suitable employment; (d) where a child in need of protection or juvenile offender is placed under the care of any person on certain conditions, to see whether such conditions are being complied with; and (e) to perform such other functions as may be prescribed. (3) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), a competent authority may, for the purposes of any particular case or proceeding appoint any other person as a probation officer if in its opinion such appointment is expedient or necessary.