[F1140B Insurance of voluntary assistants of probation committee.E+W
(1)A county council F2. . . may enter into a contract of insurance of a relevant class against risks of any voluntary assistant of a relevant probation committee meeting with a personal accident, whether fatal or not, while engaged as such, or suffering from any disease or sickness, whether fatal or not, as the result of being so engaged.
(2)In this section—
“relevant probation committee” means—
(a)in relation to a county council, a probation committee for a probation area wholly or partly within the county; and
(b)in relation to Greater London, a probation committee for a probation area wholly or partly within an outer London borough (within the meaning of section 1 of the 1963 Act); and
“voluntary assistant” means a person who, at the request of an authorised officer of the probation committee, performs any service or does anything otherwise than for payment by the committee (except by way of reimbursement of expenses), for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of any of the functions of the committee.]
[F3(3)In relation to Wales—
(a)subsections (1) and (2)(a) above shall have effect as if they referred to a principal council; and
(b)subsection (2)(a) above shall have effect as if it referred to the area of the principal council.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 140A–140C inserted by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30, SIF 81:1), s. 39(2)
F2Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102, Sch. 17
F3S. 140B(3) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(5), Sch. 15 para. 31 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 para. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 140B: certain functions transferred (temp. from 4.5.1995 to 31.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/1042, art. 3(3)