24 CAP. 9.] CRIMINAL CODE sentence has taken effect and until the expiration or remission of such punishment. Suspended sentence supervision order. Added by: XXIX. 1990.3. Amended by: III. 2002.14; L.N. 407 of 2007; XXIV. 2014.6. Cap. 446. Cap. 446. 28G. (1) Where a sentence of more than six months imprisonment is suspended in accordance with the provisions of article 28A(1), the court may in addition make a suspended sentence supervision order (hereinafter referred to as "a supervision order") placing the offender under the supervision of a supervising officer for a period specified in the order, being a period not exceeding the operational period. (1A) Where a supervision order is made in accordance with the provisions of sub-article (1), the court may, in addition to the order, make a community service order as defined in article 11 of the Probation Act and the provisions of the Probation Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to any such order. (2) A supervision order shall specify the name, address and other identification particulars of the offender, and the supervising officer shall be a probation officer appointed under the Probation Act and named in the supervision order; and the supervision order may moreover require the offender to comply, during the whole or any part of the period of supervision, with such requirements as may be imposed by the court under the provisions of article 7 of the said Act. (3) An offender in respect of whom a supervision order is in force shall keep in touch with the supervising officer in accordance with such instructions as he may from time to time be given by that officer and shall notify him of any change of address. (4) The court by which a supervision order is made shall cause a copy of the order to be served forthwith on the supervising officer. (5) A supervision order shall cease to have effect if before the end of a period specified in it (a) a court orders that the suspended sentence passed in the proceedings in which the supervision order was made shall have effect; or (b) the order is discharged or replaced in accordance with the following provisions of this article. (6) A supervision order may be discharged on the application of the supervising officer or the offender by the court which made the order. If such order was made on appeal, the court from which the appeal was made shall be deemed to be the court which made the order. (7) The court which made the supervision order may replace it by an order extending its duration in accordance with any variation of the operational period of the suspended sentence made under article 28B(2). (8) On making or replacing a supervision order the court shall explain its effect in ordinary language to the offender.