The Combined Probation Areas (Cambridgeshire) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2917

PROBATION

The Combined Probation Areas (Cambridgeshire) Order 1991

Made

19th December 1991

Coming into force

1st January 1992

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 54(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973(1), and after the consultation required by that paragraph, I hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Combined Probation Areas (Cambridgeshire) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st January 1992.

2.  Schedule 2 to the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986(2) shall be amended by substituting for the entry in respect of Cambridgeshire the following entry–

(1)	(2)	(3)
Petty Sessions Area	Probation Area	Number of justices on probation committee
Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	6
East Cambridgeshire		1
Fenland		2
Huntingdonshire		3
Peterborough		4

3.  The two members of the Cambridgeshire Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1992 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of Ely and Newmarket (Cambridgeshire) shall decide by agreement, or in default of agreement by lot, which one of the two of them shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of East Cambridgeshire(3).

4.  The two members of the Cambridgeshire Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1992 by the justices for the petty sessions area of North Witchford and Wisbech shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of Fenland.

5.  The three members of the Cambridgeshire Probation Committee appointed before 1st January 1992 by the justices for the petty sessions areas of Huntingdon and Toseland shall continue in office as if appointed by the justices for the new petty sessions area of Huntingdonshire. Home Office

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

19th December 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 to take account of the reorganisation of petty sessions areas in Cambridgeshire effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Cambridgeshire) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2215) which comes into force on1st January 1992.

(1)

1973 c. 62.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1713, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(3)

The new petty sessions areas referred to in articles 3, 4 and 5 were constituted by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Cambridgeshire) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2215).